I think there used to be a thread like this, but I couldn’t find it when I looked. Anyway, I’ll share a few pictures of what I did today and a few days ago. I replaced our ratty kitchen counter on the cheap (in terms of materials anyway), with slate tiles, a steel front edge, and a brazilian cherry sink surround. Here’s a few pictures. Hope to see some other people’s daily work here. zak View Image View Image View Image View Image View Image
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Nice job zak!
But I do hope thats not a Coors light can in the garbage.....that work deserves better!
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
I think I see what you're talking about- that's no coors can, thats a wrapper from some fresh buffalo milk mozzarella cheese.
Anyway, that job deserved an Obsidian stout. Now to see if it lasts.
zak
Spent all afternoon yesterday and part of this morning working on taxes. Blasted TurboTax gets "smarter" every year, so you have to watch it more and more to make sure it doesn't "help" you too much.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
What none of you lazy azzes did anything today?
I pulled cable and wired control circuits most of the day. Watched some goofs try to get a cement truck out of a yard they buried it in up to it's axles.
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
helped a friend finish 2 jobs today.
And I was home by 3 so I could do some yard work.
Gotta rest up the rest of the week so I can be in top form for my trip to Myrtle Beach next week.
Yesterday I went out to breakfast with the extended family. Got back to the ranch, ran some base, trimmed out four windows and a cased opening, cleaned up and got the trailer ready for the upcoming week, ate dinner, and grouted my foyer and kitchen tie-in.
Today we started cutting in two dormers in a gambrel roof. Got one just about done before we ran out of stock around 6pm. The other side is just a gaping hole in their roof. Shouldn't be a problem wrapping that up tomorrow. Better not be a problem, cuz we're starting another job on Wednesday. Dude better get the stock there on time.View Image
Yesterday? Let me tell you about yesterday.
Took the dog on her first hike of the year. She looked like tigger on her leash. What a riot.
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
Dogs rule.View Image
You got that right. She can tell the difference between my work clothes and my regular clothes. If I put on my work clothes she just hangs aound and watches, gives me a little kiss at the door and wanders back to the bedroom to get the wife up.
But if I put on regular clothes she's all up my azz. Jumping and bouncing, running and sliding on the hardwood floors. And if I put on my hiking boots it's freaking nuts. I get wore out just trying to get out the door. And there isn't an option to leave her behind. LOL
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
My dog won't even look at me on Monday mornings. He knows as soon as I get up that I'm getting ready for work and the weekend is over. Just stays right on his bed and acts all pissed at me. View Image
Yea the pout. I get that. Cracks me up.
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
I went to work for a couple hours tearing out an old kitchen. My asthma has been kicking my a$$ the past couple days, so I came home around noon, and laid in bed with the vaporizer blowing in my face. Bad enough, I'm thinking about going to the doctor tomorrow, we'll see.If you have any poo, fling it now.
Man that's something I hope I never have to deal with. Good luck.
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
Do you take Albuteral? (sp?) My asthma isn't all that bad but when it does kick in that's the only thing that helps. Like the time my wife took a moldy comforter out of storage and threw it on the bed. I passed out within 3 min of hitting the pillow as usual and woke up with what felt like an elephant on my chest. Couldn't remember where I left the inhaler and finally found it in my snowblower jacket. Longest 2 minutes of my life I think.View Image
The doc had me on albuterol once. Made me worse. Would be OK right after taking the stuff, but about 2 hours later could hardly breathe.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
What did he switch you to Dan?View Image
Nuttin. Doc was insisting that what I had was asthma (since I'd had it as a child), but it turned out to be an abcess in my throat.I do have a slight wheeze, but it's more due to muscle weakness than asthma.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
I started a design / build meeting with some new clients (third meeting) last night at 7:30 PM. Both are talkers and carried on until 12:00 AM.
As an example, I asked a question about closets and needed storage space and get a 40 minute story about the wife's mother dying and leaving her all of these photographs she needs to calalog and store in a climatized area. Then we took a tour of their MBR closet.
They are paying cash, ($4,500.00 plan design and spec contract and estimated $375,000.00 build contract on thier lot) and want to start ASAP. So I am grateful and gracious. They also furnished cold drinks, almonds, cashews, pecans and walnuts for the meeting. I am glad they did not break out the home movie camera and popcorn.
I hope they are not BT Members. Risky post.
Did Arts & Crafts style trim in a house with sneaky trap doors and hidden passageways today...but they covered them up with kitchen cabinets. The original owner was a brewer during prohibition. I would have preserved that little bit of history. Oh well, I did get to restore some of the house. We cased three doorways and three windows that had been remuddled.
Ran more testcases. Reviewed a corporate security document.
Sorry, don't have pictures.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
The only anti-histamine that works for me is Benadryl. It works well, but I lose lots of IQ points about 60 minutes after taking them.
I've done everything to control it, specialists, shots, but there are just certain things that knock me on my a$$.
Cats, and certain dogs are a known problem. Cats are so bad I won't sell any jobs to customers with cats. Dogs aren't that bad.If you have any poo, fling it now.
Benadryl is powerful stuff. I keep it in the truck for bee stings but I hate taking it for the same reasons as you.... 45 minutes later and I feel like I'm in outer space and stuck on stupid. Cats still screw me up sometimes. I've gotten used to my wife's cats but some days it seems like I'm more susceptible and they nail me out of the blue. I hope it passes soon enough for you.View Image
It'll pass, it always does. Just gives me something to complain about in the mean time.If you have any poo, fling it now.
Try Singulair. My wife has asthma and she says the stuff helps her. Won't disconnect your brain either.
Just got back from Pittsburgh PA. Went to PNC park and saw the Pirates beat the Dodgers 7-6. Beautiful ball park.
"With every mistake we must surely be learning"
Any park where the Dodgers are getting beat is beautiful - LOL!
Beautiful ball park.
It really is. I've been to 10 or so major league parks, and PNC is the best. I'm hearing Busch Stadium II is really spectacular, so I'll try to catch a game there this year.
Yankee Stadium, and Fenway are on my list also for this year.If you have any poo, fling it now.
Got busy on a huge job today. Installed all of these cabinets...and the countertop...and all that crown molding...Whew!Managed to do all that work and get home in time for the first pitch of the Rangers Angels game.
Nice tidy little set up. Make a little coin. And make it home for a baseball game?
That, my friend, is a successful day.View Image
That's what I'm talking about.
Ranger game is on in 15 minutes, so you had some time to spare.If you have any poo, fling it now.
Roar! I was expecting to open that up and see a big kitchen. Made me jump back.
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
I was comparing what I did today with that kitchen that Dustin did a week ago...no contest!He did 4 times as much in time for an early game. Me--I putz through a small job & get home just in time for a late game (with a helper even).
I hope you were like me and didn't overwork yourself.
It was an easy day laborwise (9-1), then I did pickup & deliver 220 l.f. of oak beaded-board & met with a HO on a complicated kitchen design. Spent a fair amount of time driving.It was a nice day.
Had an exciting day watching test cases run.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
Actually got some work done today. Unfortunately, nothing worth photos. Put a couple vinyl floors down, and set some appliances. No glory, but a check is a check.
Felt better, but still not right. If you have any poo, fling it now.
Finished framing another house today. Not soon enough, this one was a pain, 2 1/2 bunks of 1/2" OSB all on 12-12 pitched roof.
This house had the worst floor plan I've ever seen in Michigan the second story of the house sat in 3' from the first story walls around 1/2 the house. Cold, drafty floors I predict for this one. Sharp looking house though.
We finished cutting in two 6' dormers on the front of a gambrel roof. Same house that we did the 1200 sqft addition on the back of the week before with the 1/2 octagon roof.
We cranked it up a notch, skipped lunch, and I made it home in time for the second inning of the Red Sox home opener. Yeah baby.
Just finished invoicing the job above so I can get paid. Now I've got to whip a contract together for the job we're starting tomorrow. Better late than never.View Image
Swapped out old laminate kitchen countertops for new, in La Crosse, WI.Picked up supplies for a ceramic tile job (scheduled for Fri.)Now I'm supposed to go look at a job this evening, might postpone it...I'm tired...just want to stay home.
Vinyl floors. Your poor knees.
I finished up the control boxes and video on the job I was on yesterday. Then jumped over to another job and helped another guy with some miscellanious stuff. Among them setting a 5,000 pound safe in place. Believe it or not, that's one of the least strenuos jobs you can do. If you know leverage. A frail old man like me can move it across the building and never break a sweat. You can tip them sum bitches over pretty easy though if you aint paying attention.
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
I had the day off. Slept in. Rassled with the dog for a little. Farted around here. Drove over the hill to the killer commando store, farted around in there for a bit. Drove over to Barnes and noble. Farted around there for a bit. Got Taco Bell on the way home. Ate lunch while farting around here for a bit. Took a nap. Logged in here and farted around for a bit. The wife came home, that killed the farting around. Did some dishes invented Ramen noodles doused in A-1 sauce with bacon bits, then farted around here for a bit.
Drove over to Outback steak house looking for Jet, picked up dinner, gorged on that. Then the rest of the evening has been spent farting around here.
Tommorrow I'll probably fart around here for a bit, then who knows.
Twistin' with Lucy, Doin' the Watusi, Roll over on your back, I like it like that
Do that Jerk-uh,Watch me work y'all, Ow! Do it!
Fished, napped, BT'd and got fired..Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Got fired? How do you get fired from being retired?
Twistin' with Lucy, Doin' the Watusi, Roll over on your back, I like it like that Do that Jerk-uh,Watch me work y'all, Ow! Do it!
the librarians gave him the boot...
I guess. Only IMERC can get fired from fishing and napping.
Twistin' with Lucy, Doin' the Watusi, Roll over on your back, I like it like that Do that Jerk-uh,Watch me work y'all, Ow! Do it!
just the fishing...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
So then your duties have been cut back. Your just a napper and reader now? That's still a good gig.
Twistin' with Lucy, Doin' the Watusi, Roll over on your back, I like it like that Do that Jerk-uh,Watch me work y'all, Ow! Do it!
ya left out putzin'' and eatin'....
still gonna fish if I HAVETA DO IT ON MY TIME...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
First rule of working. Don't give nothing away. Just charge em more for putzin.
Twistin' with Lucy, Doin' the Watusi, Roll over on your back, I like it like that Do that Jerk-uh,Watch me work y'all, Ow! Do it!
not workin'' just chargin' and putzin''Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
this is the first set of cabinets I have built.
Put new fiberglass windows into 106-year-old balloon-framed, no-header walls. Studs 4-1/4" to 5" thick, 1" board sheathing on both sides, wrapped in 19th century newspapers. The original windows were framed in place, caulked with bits of clothing, fairly rotten, and held in by forged nails that ate a sawzall blade apiece. Everything about 1/4"-ft out of square. Added headers; some hung from HH4s, and others on jacks ripped from 2x6s. Recycled some of the old trim into shims -- lots & lots of shims!
Sitting back now and drawing a house -- a profession I began a quarter-century back when I realized I was getting too old for nailbanging.
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Ted,
I'm going to replace my crappy aluminum windows with something better.
I stopped at the Pella store and they have fiberglass replacements.What brand did you use and how do you like them?Thanks,
Pete
Very nice. I love them drawers.
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thanx, the steel door in the middle is on a remote control with a light that comes on when you open it.Kinda james bondish!
Very cool.
Party your Tipi off! Aug 18th,19th &20th Ask for details.
Got a message that I was fired from fishing...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"...Farted around here...farted around in there for a bit...Farted around there for a bit...while farting around here...and farted around ..."
"Ramen noodles doused in A-1 sauce with bacon bits"
The second goes a long way in explaining the first! Yuck! Tobasco maybe... but A1?!?! God-bless ya!View Image
It was pretty good believe it or not. My wife buys that crap all the time and I never put it on meat. Figured it must be good on something. You ever boil a bouilion cube with your rice? Pretty good too.
Twistin' with Lucy, Doin' the Watusi, Roll over on your back, I like it like that Do that Jerk-uh,Watch me work y'all, Ow! Do it!
Try a 50/50 mix of orange juice and water with your rice too.
What's that taste like?
The opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.
To all, Pretty much finished up the barback today. I need to make a smaller piece of crown on the left and right cabinets. The piece I was going to use was just to big. Now I'm onto the next phase of the job; The mobile Bar. You can see in the picture the client could not wait to get the booze into the cabinets. Thats ok, He waited forever.
-Lmc
Very beautiful.
The opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.
very nice Cheers, Salud, Prosit! etc....
Yesterday, I blew cellulose into an attic & grouted tile.Today, I'm taking DW to the MSP airport for a trip to NC, & picking up flooring in Brooklyn Park. PM will install a vanity & other bathroom loose ends.Never boring.
Tastes like rice with an orange flavor. Pretty good if you like orange juice etc. I like it but the kids don't.
Tonight. I dine on Gourmet rice!
The opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.
Put my 12 yr old dog down to end his misery. Followed me everywhere. Knew all my shop mistakes and never told anyone. Never had to do this before. Not to bum you guys out. Give your dog a bone and have a beer with him.
"With every mistake we must surely be learning"
My condolences to you. I don't have a dog as I'm an apartment dweller and can't have one. But if I could I'd probably have 3 - they truely are man's best friend. Get yourself another one, he'd want it that way.
Peace! :o)
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oh man, hard road.
Last summer I came back after a 6week road trip and stopped at pop's. Seeing no one was home I noticed the dog, who has always been there to greet you for like years and years, wasn't there either.
I later asked pop where Patches was and he said buried out in the garden.
Still to this day everytime I get out of the car there I look at the porch expecting to see the dog come running up.
Don't wait to long to get a new pup.
'Nemo me impune lacesset'No one will provoke me with impunity
sorry to hear this....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Bummer. Been there done that. Had a big cry over it. Still get choked up once in awhile.
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
condolences - I keep saying there'll never be another..then some new mutt steals my heart again.Time...
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Yeah. I know. I am dreaming of a lazy chocolate lab. But the wife says no. She says "The kids are almost raised and we're movin ahead without a dog". Maybe I'll win this one someday. Women say no to a lot of things. You just gotta be patient and work it. Someday I'll meet the right dog and talk to him about how to win her over and she'll cave. The dog will park his butt by the woodstove and I'll crack a beer and that will be it.
Thanks.
"With every mistake we must surely be learning"
Opened that picture and was sure I was looking at Beau. We put him down bout a year & a half ago. He lived a good life, but even with $500 of good drugs each month he finally said "I'm ready."
Took a long time to get used to him not being around, even if his buddy was still here...
The vet cried - he was that kind of dog...
I knew I shouldn't have looked at the pic. Now I am sad.
Don't be sad. He had a great life. Grew up with three kids. Played hard, slept at the foot of our bed, even got his own Christmas presents. He was a great guy. I think I did the right thing. I was bumming out last night but I'm ok now. I appreciate your feelings.
"With every mistake we must surely be learning"
Gunner:With all that gas, its a wonder your house hasn't blown up.I met a sub today to cement a roof/siding quote for a frame-up we're doing. Dropped off my partner, came home with good intentions of finalizing some plans I need to finish for a take-off, but did nothing at all but play online. now i'm going to read. Tomorrow I'll draw the plans. tomorrow.By the way Zak, the sink is nice. Like the slate, pretty slick. I knew some people long ago that had bought an old copper sink with a wooden counter on both sides. They kept it pretty clean and it didn't seem to have any problems although I didn't pay attention at that time to how they treated it.
I knew some people long ago that had bought an old copper sink with a wooden counter on both sides.
I did a kitchen install years back which included an undermount copper sink, with a cherry "butcherblock" countertop. Quite simply, the most beautiful sink setup I've ever seen. This was done inside a pantry, so it was unlikely to see much use.
Funny thing was that it cost more in materials than the main sink/counter combo.
To top it off, the homeowners were rarely likely to find themselves in the kitchen. Both worked 16 hr. days, and neither cooked.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
Edited 3/26/2006 9:01 am ET by JDRHI
"To top it off, the homeowners were rarely likely to find themselves in the kitchen. Both worked 16 hr. days, and neither cooked."I believe it, like people with four bedroom homes who lament to me, "We need more space, just look at how cramped we are!" All things are subjective for sure and I guess some people will pay anything for bragging rights.I am here to happily provide :)
Cherry butherblock probably complimented the color of the take-out menus they'd need.
Need Bean-o?
I like the slate alot!!
I like the wood too but how will it hold up long term??
Good job
Bob T
Looks nice! I was doing a job Friday where the owners were using ceramic "slate" tile on the floors and wondered why it couldn't be used on the countertops. I like it.
This past week I got to sub for Charlie the Singing Carpenter. Heckuva nice guy...anyways...we worked for 3 days making a pole barn pretty. OK that sounds silly, but here is what we did to impress the horses.
We removed old windows & installed five new ones & trimmed i/s and out, built and installed the dutch door, added barnstyle trim to the front door, & misc. maintenance.
The dutch door internal frame was pockethole screwed and gorilla glued together, then sheathed w/ 3/8 ply (glued & stapled) on both sides before trim. All window casing assemblies were pre-assembled with gorilla glue and pockethole screws.
pretty cool- are the doors and windwo trim going to get paint, or are they just going to get old and look like barn doors?
I need to make some doors like that for my garage.
zak
I asked Charlie the same thing, I guess it is up to the owner to line up a painter. We like to leave that part to others.I'll be doing some carriage doors for my place this spring. I'll post pics of my inspiration for that project later today.
Edited 3/25/2006 1:22 pm ET by basswood
Yeah, I'd like to see those- my garage has an 8 foot opening that I need to fill somehow, and I would prefer carriage doors. I don't think a car will ever see the inside of this garage again anyway, but I need it to open wide when I run long stuff through the tablesaw.
zak
I'm goin' to knock off these:They slide and so will my version to preserve overhead space and to allow any width opening (one person can slip in or go wide open for the work van).
Went to see my accountant at 9:00 this morning....taxes..... ugggghhh. Figured after the trauma of that I deserved a day on my azz. So I made four or five phone calls that needed to be made, returned my rental car from JLC, and hit the couch. Caught all nine innings of the Sox/Bluejays game and then dozed off for about 2 1/2 hours.
Woke up around six and the wife and I went out to dinner. Got a belly full of chicken parmigiana and I'm headed back to the couch shortly. Not a bad day at all.
Tomorrow I've got to bid three sets of plans and do a little pick up framing at my house. Then get the truck/trailer stocked and ready for a new frame we're starting Monday morning. Also need to convert a wormdrive into a Bigfoot 10 1/4 with the kit as well as change the o-rings in one of my framers. I'm actually looking forward to getting back into a groove and back to work. Time to get crack-a-lackin'.View Image
I woke up about eightish, made coffee. Sent the wife off to work. Farted around here for awhile. Made peaches and cream oatmeal, farted around here some more. Boss called was looking for one of our trucks. We tried to tell him Thursday that it had been missing (he owns aound 20) It finaly dawned on him what everyone was getting at. So he was calling all us leadmen trying to put together a time frame. Two of the the most dimwitted guys share it so there is no telling. Anyway best he can figure it's been gone most of the week. It cracked me up, he was so confused when he called.
Then I got in the shower drove over met my dad at his church changed out a couple emergency lights. Drove back home stopped at Taco bell again, plopped down on the computer and have been mostly farting around here off and on the rest of the day.
Ohh yea I tried A-1 on cheese pizza tonight. Not too bad. The stuff ruins a good steak I figure it's got to be good for something.
I think I'm gonna make up a batch of hard tack for my road trip to Ohio tommorrow. I wonder how that taste dunked in A-1?
Twistin' with Lucy, Doin' the Watusi, Roll over on your back, I like it like that Do that Jerk-uh,Watch me work y'all, Ow! Do it!
I have to kinda hope I'm never big enough to 'lose a truck'. Sounds complicated. But considering your two biggest dopes (every crew's got at least one) were last in possesion of the truck, I'm looking forward to hearing an amusing tale regarding it's whereabouts.
BTW... just throw away that A-1 and stop commiting cardinal sins against pizza. It deserves better.View Image
Nice truck too. One ton ford four wheel drive with a utility bed. Hard to lose but nothing those two do surprises me. I've got to spend a week in school with one of them this week. Don't think he wont get the business. LOL
Personaly I think it was stolen. But until he can nail down a definate time frame it's pretty hard to review the DVR at the shop to see if something shows up.
The pizza got what it deserved. Bland old card board looking thing. Came in a box.
Twistin' with Lucy, Doin' the Watusi, Roll over on your back, I like it like that Do that Jerk-uh,Watch me work y'all, Ow! Do it!
Went to see my accountant at 9:00 this morning....taxes..... ugggghhh
My accountant is the nicest guy in the world, and I still hate his guts. I should hate the IRS, but the accountant takes the brunt for being the go between.Speak the truth, or make your peace some other way.
Any chance that the barn has the old hayloft door? My carriage house has the hayloft door opening, but it has been filled in with glass block, which the scum in the back have broken a bunch of.Anyway, I'd like to dump the glass block and put in something that resembles a hayloft door, but with a window of some type to let light in. Maybe even one that opens to allow ventilation.So I'm looking for inspiration.
No hayloft in that barn...but there are countless barns around here. I'll keep my eyes open for a few interesting haylofts & see if I can get some pics.
Thanks! That will be great.
Last weekend put down a vinyl floor that HD shorted me on (separate earlier post), but good day today.
Just had fun today, pulled a 4.3L V6 and all the wiring for the computer from an '87 buick - this baby intended for a custom sawmill whenever I retire.
Are you going to do a car tire bandsaw mill? I've seen pictures of those things, and if anyone could do that, you could. Are you going for hydraulics too? I need to drop by there sometime when I'm on the west side of the state, sounds like you've got a great place.
zak
Exellent work. Nice joinery at the corners. What's the finish? You could put a pull-out under the sink to keep all that crap in and make it easier to access.
Example of pull-outs.
Framed and hung a recycled french door between my main entry way and my office space, should lesson the noise from the tv upstairs and also from me screaming at the computer !!!!! Ceramic tiles are going in entry next week so trying to get everything ready, also going to install some recycled fir T & G for wainscotting in the entry, losts work to do & having a hard time not doing to much, my wrist isn't 100 % yet from break in Jan. (ladder problem, had put a steel plate in) and 18 V cordless put it to the test. I will get by.
IF IT WAS EASY, EVERYONE COULD DO IT
And it's only 7:55am! ;)View Image
sorry, was yesterday, Saturday, just starting the day here, only 7:22 am. but more same today
IF IT WAS EASY, EVERYONE COULD DO IT!
08:08
just finished cleaning the fishin' tackle...
and starting on the second pot of joe...
don't plan on shifting gears much...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
That's nice. We've been talking about doing that. Of course, all that junk under the sink isn't usually so junky-looking, but we pulled the cab doors off to paint.
zak
Edit: by the way, the finish is varathane 900 (I think that's the number). I was going to get spar varnish, but the varathane talked specifically about being detergent and water resistant, so. . .
The joinery was all done with epoxy. If this thing doesn't hold up, I'll redo it with ipe and penetrating finish.
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Yesterday, removed old kitchen, installed a new kitchen.
Today, finished all the trim/detail work on the kitchen today.
Worked the weekend to make up for all the goofing off last week.
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So does that mean your winter slump is over?Kinda hard for me to imagine completing anything in two days- I manage to drag things out no matter how simple.zak
that wood is beautiful!
you going to use something like mineral oil on slate?oh my weekend - first for me
started 2am Friday night / morning
PAIN and trip to emergency room ; kidney stones
by 3pm Sat two trips to emergency room and one sore dude
don't wish that on anybody
feel like I had twins today
Ouch, sorry for your weekend. I've heard that's about as painful as it gets. Good excuse to chill on the couch with a movie and some ice cream though.
I've put a penetrating sealer on the slate, and I was going to paste wax it too- have you used mineral oil on it? I was wondering about that, but my test pieces still look oily after a week or so.
zak
does that mean your winter slump is over?
We'll see.
2 days is doable, but a little rushed for my taste. The customer is in a big hurry, so to expedite the templates for the tops, I had a small window. It was a basic install, just swapping cabinets, only minor changes to the layout.Speak the truth, or make your peace some other way.
for ext. slate I've used penetrating sealers and for some int. slate that I used mortar w/ river rock I used waterlox
kinda have the feeling / sense that a "sealed" slate will have that wet look
segued the mineral oil from the wooden countertop ideas / a lot of parallels w / raw wood / probably w/ soapstone too
your idea of paste wax sounds good - be nice if it gave protection and left that drier stone look
I built a little vanity for the bathroom over the weekend, and cut a top for it out of a granite scrap today. Also, put down Ipe on my back porch- that's nice wood, I didn't think it was hard to work, but then I didn't do very much.
The vanity is made from pine from a closet I took out to expand the bathroom. When I got to thinking about it, I realized that all the wood in the it is as old as the house. It would be completely authentic, but I'll probably use plywood for the drawer bottoms. Authenticity is over rated anyway.
zak
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Nice.
Zak nice granite!
I had/have that idea for our new vanity.
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Been in school all week. Pretty interesting class. It's the first in a two part course on drive thru vat installation. The instructor is pretty good so I'm staying interested. This place is making me lazier then ever though. Breaks every hour or so. Fresh coffee and pastries anytime you want them. Catered lunch. Whatever you need just ask.
I'd stay in this school for a month if I could. It's a nice break from the routine. Get to wear nice clothes and soft shoes. Everyone talks gently and friendly. One of the guys had smoke rolling out of his project vat today, the instructor just gave him a little chuckle and said. "Well now we're gonna really learn something about real world trouble shooting." He seemed happy about it.
The only drawback is the wireless in this hotel sucks. Can't pick up a decent signal in my room so I have to use the business center. Pain in the gonads. And they are full all week so I can't move to a better one.
The opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.
"It's the first in a two part course on drive thru vat installation."What? you're going to install drive though vats? I'm imagining somone bringing raw donut batter from home, driving up to a window, and dropping some dough in a "drive through vat" to cook it. Is that the idea?zak
VAT = Visual auto teller. Smart azz.
The opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.
Well now, that makes a wee bit more sense. They let you around all that money?Anyhow, I spent a good part of the day cleaning up and selling my old truck, long may she run.
Then I dimensioned all the stock for a couple sets of double casement windows, and put a nice profile on them. All recycled doug fir, I think I sawed through three nails today, and that's after spending a couple hours carefully removing nails. I'm pretty hard on table saw blades.zak
Adjusted a door to close properly (due to settling).
Replaced a shower fixture, put backer board over and will tile it tomorrow.
Grunge on.
I set another kitchen, two vanities, and all the tops today. Forgot the pictures, I'm going back to do the house next door tomorrow, so I'll get pics of both.Speak the truth, or make your peace some other way.
Finished hanging cabinets in a kitchen showroom...now we just have to finish running crown and other misc. The 4-piece, built-up, crown is worthy of some photos (I'll take some tomorrow and post them Friday or Saturday). The run of cabinets I ran crown on today had the 4 moldings (cap, chair rail, crown & rope) and two pieces of backing. I know that sounds strange but it looks pretty cool. For the four legs of the run I had to cut 24 pieces for a 6' run of cabinets. More of the same tomorrow.
An interesting morning yesterday,
Finishing up some drywall repairs and trimming a window for people I have worked for a number of times in the last five years. Next door is a 60ish single woman who is having her "architect" boyfriend doing an addition and whole house remodel. Neighbors house is going from 1000 sqr ft to 2000sqr ft, and her project has been going on for over 6 years.
While I'm working, the neighbor comes over to complain to my customer about a tree in my customers yard. (Too close to the lot line, dropping leaves and walnuts into her yard. This problem has been going on for years) The discussion was civil for the first 5 minutes.
Then my customer cut loose with a blue streak. Lot of F-bombs, some hilarious comments about the neighbors ability to stay sober long enough to finish the project, and more comments about the mud and garbage in the neighbors yard. Customer left out comments about the flock of pink flamingos on top of the dirt pile, or the life size fiberglass horse in the yard, but finished up by yelling, "YOU ARE F***ING NUTS"
So after the rant, customer comes in the house, shaking her head. "Can you believe that!" I commented, "I guess you are off her Christmas card list". customer laughed, then went and got ready for work.
Bowz
Finally finished up a job that has been a real zoo!
...really..it has...been working on a couple things for the kiddy ride park at the local zoo...not your everyday kinds of things, but for the past 4 weeks, been hard at it...drove the last screw at 4:39 this evening...knowledge without experience is just information.... Mark Twain
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Nice, very nice, I like the outswinging doors on the booths!Fell and bucked a 40 ft Mango tree today. Got a saw mill guy coming tomorrow to plank a bunch of it for him and me N/C. He sells it to wood turners for bowls and tourist nick nack stuff.Taking a break from sanding my living room right now
Chuck,That is a nice project. It will be fun for you to take "your crew" to.Good job on the dragon too. ; > )
hey Brian...how's the Mendars deal working out for you? Looking forward to seeing the pics on that baby!knowledge without experience is just information.... Mark Twain
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Very good, we finish up tomorrow & I'll post pics this weekend.
Broke two computers. It was a good day.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
Chuck,Here are a few pics of the kitchen showroom project we finished today. The cabinets are not the finest, but it was fun. They tried to show off every feature possible...the result is an almost cobbled together appearance IMO.
I'm glad that's not my kitchen. Looks like it was fun though.
I tore off my garage roof yesterday (down to the walls), and framed it back up today. Being the rookie that I am, this morning I called a few places about metal roofing, and found out that nobody stocks it, and it won't be here till wednesday. The weather forecast is good though, and that means I don't have to work on a hot roof all weekend.zak
"so it goes"
Fine work. I'll have to get over there and check it out the next time I'm in The Cities.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
Nice looking job CTSC. I did notice a 1/32" gap on the door trim, though.
LOL.
BTW, today I demo'ed a bathroom for remodel and went to the dump and started roughing in the new plumbing.
It was pretty filthy, too.
Grunge on. http://grungefm.com
I spent most of the morning gutting a bathroom when my monitor went off and I spent the next 7 hours fighting a house fire. No one got hurt but the house.
Just to keep the smart alecks at bay, the house I was drowning was not the house I was gutting.
Jim
Just a dumb question. How do you post pictures right on the message. I tried but it wouldn't let me copy and paste. Please help. Thanks.
what internet program are you using? It seems to be easier with Internet explorer, but someone here helped me do it with mozilla, using a "bbcode plugin".
Anyway, the first step is to attach the file to the post, in a file size between 50 and 100 kb.
once that is attached, in IE, go to "preview post",
then open the attachment from there,
right click and copy picture
hit "back",
hit "revise"
right click and "paste" picture
repeat as necessary.In Mozilla Firefox, if you have BBcode,
check the HTML tag box, then
follow above instructions except
"copy picture location" and
right click > bbcode > clipboard > picture.
it won't show up as a picture until you preview or post.zak
Just testing it out. I tried attaching it. There's two because I made the last one smaller for web viewing and didn't know how to take it off. It still won't let me paste. I can preview, copy, and revise but when I go to paste it, it does nothing. What is BBcode plug-in, and how do you get it. I have Firefox.
this post should lead you to bbcode:
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=71142.5hope that works.
your larger file is a picture that opens fine for me, but the smaller one seems to be saved as some other application.
If you need a good image editor to downsize those pics, a lot of people here like irfanview and google picasa. I've never used either one, so I can't offer much more advice. For simple edits, I just right click and select edit picture. Jpegs are the format of choice in this forum.Looks like you're doing some demo, I hope you can get some photos posted.
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Since my time has been limited to a couple hours every evening, I have been hanging two windows every night on the project.
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not summer yet...
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Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Slow day today, spent half the frikken day on the phone. Finally finished the interminable bathroom - almost. Finished touch up on the vanity top that I made, cut the hole for the sink and put it in, crawled my fat arse underneath and hooked up water and waste, installed the spigots and covers in the tub, shower rod, did some misc. electric stuff, some clean up and argued with the female of the house.
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hey that was last year's summer...
don't count no more...
this summer isn't here yet so ya got ya jump start goin'............Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Slow but sure"
Amen to that!! This week I've found I can get 4 door panels sanded one night, and glued up into the frames the next. Only 3 to go - this weekend I start finish sanding the frames - yea!! Started the cabinets last May.
Tell me about that metal edge...I still wish I could find the old time stainless edging for laminate tops!!!!
I finally hung my KV185 brackets on the garage wall & stacked the lumber that's been sitting on the garage floor since we moved in 3 years ago....Bondo'd, sealed, sanded & painted the wall hanging planters; might get one more year out of them.....got a whole list of projects, & at least a month before I go on the road again...
Had real fun last week....theres a crack in my (poured) foundation.....seeps a bit of water most of the time...previous HO did a sloppy waterproof cement patch; after watching Kurosawa's version of Hamlet (on rare occasions I'm glad I have cable...) I decided I'd better do something productive, started to chip out the bad patch, cut back & key in a better one....got tired of the damp chips hitting me in the face, figured I'd drill a little weep hole down low & see if it would drain to the sump, through the floor drain right next to the crack.
Got out my trusty antique AEG hammer drill, powered a 1/2 bit through the wall, and promptly got a gusher...we are talking garden hose here...of water. I'm impressed (especially since the water was as clear as tap water), but I figure it'll drain itself out & down the floor drain pretty quick.
Well, turns out the floor drain doesn't (I have a sneaking suspicion that it used to drain to the sanitary line, & the local inspector made the previous HO plug it- he just didn't bother to get rid of the grate....someday soon I plan to look into it, so to speak).
Anyway, the water is rapidly speading out over the basement floor....now, sooner or later it will spill into the sump, but not before getting a lot of stuff wet. So I quick whittle a plug & pound it into the 1/2 hole, and go smoke a cigarette, just to calm my nerves (and look outside to reassure myself that I can't possibly have hit a water main)
I spent the next hour & a half draining the flood into empty 2 gallon kitty litter jugs and pouring it into the sump well...I quit counting at 80 gallons! It finally drained down-though by the next day it had filled up again, to judge by the flow when I poppped the plug out. All I can figure, I must have gone through right where the void from the long ago deteriorated clay tile downspout drain tile is. The worst part of the whole thing is, that drain runs right under the (attached) garage slab...which is why today I finally got my stack of salvaged miscellaneous old growth scrap lumber up off the garage floor....I see blisters, sledgehammers, and shovels in my future!
Gotta laugh. It seems that most of us are doing a whole lot of nothing. My day started at 8:30AM. I broke out my rear window in my work van by 9:00 cleaning up last weeks siding job. $600 bucks down the toilet. Spent the rest of the day running around and on the phone. Crappy weather but at least the snow is finally starting to melt.
Last couple days been interestingI'm in Montana - yestyerday the kid got married here near gateway to yellowstone park. Day before that we had toured up there some and found the front brakes to be smoking - not a good sign - so I bet it down to the dealership and they found tht plastic garbaae bag had sneaked up into the works and was causing the trouble.Today, wedding over aand getting ready to paack for homeward bound
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wow that's God's Country - you at the entrance near Mammoth Hot Springs - big majestic stone gate
been awhile but the wildlife viewing in is it Lamar Valley ? pretty unbelievableRoosevelt cabins; Olde Faithful Lodge Awesome
Nice country! And I bet you're glad to have some good brakes on them hills, too.
How'd the proud papa do with the wedding? Any misty eyes?
good ceremonyback as far as Chicago now on way home. fourteen mile drive days are tiring. Mr Hilton had a room ready though
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We got 57 hours in this week, so the boys and I took the weekend off.
Got up this morning, got a haircut, and came back to the office. Priced out four jobs, typed up the proposals, stuffed the envelopes and was finished by about 2:45. Went in, put on the Red Sox game, ate some pepperoni, cheese, and crackers, and promptly took a 3 hour nap. I love a lazy Saturday afternoon.
Tomorrow I've got to wash the truck and the trailer if it's nice out. There's about an inch and a half of sawdust on the floor of my truck at this point and the trailer still has road salt on it from the winter. After that .... another nap. And then another 60 hour week.
After a month of little or no work, the phone is ringing off the hook and I'm saying yes to everything. I'm gonna do it all too. Got a little more aggressive in my pricing on the four jobs I priced today. A busy me is a happy me.View Image
I took this saturday off too. Played a round of golf with my dad and my little brother (killed them both). Then held the couch down the rest of the day.
I feel like I've been running a marathon lately and am starting to wear myself out. 7 days a week 12-14 hrs a day framing houses for about a year now at that pace is starting to take its toll. So I took this weekend off.
Think I'll make some sawhorses today and clean out the Dodge looks like a bomb went off in the front seat Mountain Dew cans and blueprints everywhere.
The wife won't be back from Florida for another week and I'm almost out of Ramen noodles so I've got to figure something out fast! The grocery store ain't like Lowe's this is going to be a train wreck.
Go see these people. They will take good care of you.
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The opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.
Thanks, god knows I need all the help I can get. The only way I can tell dinner is done is when the smoke alarm is going off!"Sometimes I even freak myself out." Dimebag Darrell
They'll take care of ya. Their latest project was to keep me alive in the woods while hiking. Good paople.
The opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.
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That does not sound like a fun day. I can imagine putting off work like that for a long, long time.
The metal edge for the counter is just some 1" square tube, 1/8" wall thickness. I welded a mitered piece in the corner to ease it around, and brazed on brackets to the bottom, so the bottom of the steel is flush with the bottom of the plywood that is on top of the cabinets. Hardibacker on top of the plywood brings it flush with the steel, and then the slate tile goes almost to the front edge of the steel. not too hard, cost me about $20, I like the look.zak
Thanks for the info on the edging.....not what I was looking for.....sigh
Yeah, the basement fountain might have the plug in there for a while...
Out in the garage, right above where the basement leak is, the previous HO had put what looked like a 1" floated topping on the original slab in about a 2' x 3' area along the house wall. I had thought maybe he had dug out the slab at some point & done something funky below, where all the water seems to be....no such luck...today I chipped off the topping; it was just floating on the original slab anyway, and doing absolutely nothing, as far as water infiltration goes (in three years there has never been any water in the garage).
It never ceases to amaze me (especially now that I'm older & physical work hurts more than it used to) the things people do to "fix" things around the house. It had to be a good days work to pour that topping, and no reason on earth for doing it!
Arrived at the shop at 515 am. cleaned up the place. It was getting pretty messy and starting to drive me crazy. Waiting for my glass guy to deliver my mirror so I could finish my bar back and get paid. of course he went to the Billy Joel concert last night. He did not show up until 1 oclock. Now I have to work saturday and add another 8 hours onto my 70 hours this week. Heading up to New Hope P.A. with the Mrs's sunday. I'll get to relax then. Here some pics of the bar room that has been taking forever.
Have a good weekend everyone, LMC
Wow, very nice.Speak the truth, or make your peace some other way.
Classy.
Those picture files are big though, some dial uppers won't want to look at that.
zak
smaller versions of Lou's work.
Zak, thanks for making the pictures small. Cant figure how to do that. (scratch my head)
Lou
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'Nemo me impune lacesset'No one will provoke me with impunity
Doing a porch railing install and had to just carve out a little nitch deal for a better seat for a post.
Sawzall in hand but standing on top of porch and bending over with saw blade down. Just a small cut. 10 seconds worth.
Somehow wasn't really paying enough attention as my left hand was too far down on the body of the saw and that sunofa* pinched the skin of the index finger and ripped a dime sized hole thru the top layers of skin.
Friggin' hate when that happens. Worse part is just doing it when you know you know better.
be another reason to keep yer firstaid box in the truck current
'Nemo me impune lacesset'No one will provoke me with impunity
Don't feel bad. I've got my fingers caught up in recip saws more times than I can count. Not the blade, but smashed between the shoe and 'the works'. Mashed up good a couple times too.
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It won't be real bad until you start carrying a bottle of Nu-Skin in yer front pocket:o)
be all for the new
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went and did invantory on all my earthly possestions
thinking about hanging it up look for my posting in
the classifieds if yall interested in heavy duty mason type tools,
chainfalls, rigging and a big ole air force rebuilt generator
Hey give me a holler D.W.
You should do good in there. Imerc sold all of his stuff in a matter of a couple of days there last September.
Come to think of it he said that he posted some of it on another forum. You might get in touch with him and see which one it was. I now it went fast however he did it.
The opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.
masonry tools?
thanks, but no thanks.
I'll stick to finish carpentry.
But good luck selling your stuff.
Had an exciting event today.
Ya know, I don't ask much outta life. I can be content with little things, like a truck that runs ok and an occasional chinese carryout.
So today I thought it'd been a while since I did Chinese and went got ye old carryout buffet to take back to the house.
Then on the way approaching a slow stop the d*mn thing slid off the seat and hit the floor and opened on the corner of the door on the passenger side.
Stuff soaked all over under in and on the seals, under the edge of the matting, trim covers, yadayada and took like forever to clean the thing up.
Got to wondering if I want to eat Chinese anymore. Don't know if it's the MSG or what but that greasy residue wouldn't clean up for nothing.
Made the paint go glossy and kept smearing all over. Took a roll of papertowels and degreaser to finally thin it out enough to wipe up.
What a wonderful lunch. That's what I did today.
be ahso azzho
'Nemo me impune lacesset'No one will provoke me with impunity
My oldest son --thank god he is to lazy work in the trades--
sells somekind steam cleaning service in S.C. ..he made a big sell
to a chinese food joint he eats at all the time ,well being the good
sellsman he is, he is there when the cleaneing crew shows up
to do thier thing with the steaming .They start, he is there looking
over their shoulder wonderin' what the hell;he said stuff got to rollin
out of under the cab's-equip- other assorted places that defied discription
then when back out to finish enjoying his fine meal in the dining room
looke4d down at his sluummm gumm gobby noodles-- he just couldnt do it...
durn youngun had more sence than I thought he did
extra grease for the Ford
rust preventive...
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WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Nice work. Whenever I'm in a place like this I'm more impressed by who built it than who owns it.
mike585. I wonder too who built this. Whenever I am out, I'll see a profile of a detail on a piece of furniture. I will copy the profile in the store. My wife looks at me like I'm Nuts. I should have the project finished this week. I send in the completed pics.
-Thanks for the compliment, Lou
Here are the pictures from today. Started about 8am, and was home in time for the Pirates first pitch at 2:05pm
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All the cabinets in the photo, and 2 vanities with laminate tops.
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I'd still be there.
Probably scratching my head.
The opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.
I'd still be opening boxes.View Image
Then you'd be ahead of me. I'd be scratching my head trying to figure out what's in the boxes.
Actualy I installed a couple dozen safe deposit boxes today. They can be a pain in the arse. It's one of those perfection things. All the seams have to match that kind of crap. Not to bad a day.
The opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.
I ran the soffit and facia on a bastard half octagon tower roof I framed last Friday. I'm gonna take some pics, it came out killer. 62 and 70 degree cheek cuts on the jack rafters and the bastard hips were a 62 degree, 70 degree combo head cut. Thank you swing table!View Image
You make those cuts with your Bosch or 10 1/4? Just wondering how deep you can cut with the 7 1/4 swing table."Sometimes I even freak myself out." Dimebag Darrell
10 1/4" Bigfoot with a swing table and even that left me shy on the 70 degree cuts in 2X. Made me think a little bit about the 14" BigBoy with swing, but that's an awful lot of saw for an awful lot of money. Just don't think I'd use it that much. Finished the cuts with a pull saw.
I don't think I'd bother with owning a 7 1/4" swing table. IIRC, my Bosch barely makes it through an 1 3/4" LVL at 45.View Image
I was wondering if the 7 1/4 was worth it or not, I'll just buy the 10 1/4 thanks for the advice."Sometimes I even freak myself out." Dimebag Darrell
I've done about 15 of this lay out, so it's like stealing now. I should have taken some pictures of the "neighborhood". It's a HUD financed housing plan.
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Bull, that's a week, week and half's worth of work!
(Nice)
Grunge on.
Wow, that was a short day?
I would think: I can do that in a day, no prob. Then I would get out a knife and open the first box, only to cut a big gouge in the cabs. The rest of the day would be spent trying to find the right veneer or wax to patch the gouge. Around 11 pm, I would notice that I could buy a bunch of curly anigre veneer for only $10. Six days later, when I recieved the veneer, I would continue the project. At some point, one possibly two years later, I would install the veneered cabinets. I would leave the countertops off for another few months, because "I'm still thinking about what I want to do there."
Anyway, I patched and primed and painted some cabinet doors today (third color is the charm!), and scraped out old putty from windows, getting ready to reglaze.
zak
I've said it before, you are faster than I am!I've never done the same layout even twice...that would speed things up.Today I hung 9 pieces of 1/2" Durock on the walls in a cut-up bathroom & put 1/4" hardibacker on the floor.Placed a millwork order for an Arts & Crafts style trim job, Invoiced a job, worked up a bid, & got the van organized for tomorrows cabinet job.
I just bid a job that is 82 efficiency apartments on the WVU campus in West Virginia. Big jobs like that are OK the first week, after that it's like Groundhog Day.
I'm jealous of your Arts&Crafts trim job. I haven't run any decent trim jobs since last summer. I nailed up a couple miles of MDF, but no real wood in a while. Money is money, but I'm getting tired of all the brown dust.Speak the truth, or make your peace some other way.
Finished that 15 cabinet install today (started yesterday). Nothing fantastic, glad to finish it up. Had crown to ceiling with some out of level issues. Three peninsula cabs, with one in the corner facing the other way...always interesting.Came up with a way to replace the old pantry closet door with a new pantry cabinet faceframe to tie it into the new cabinets. The doors on the faceframe are actually nailed shut & the whole faceframe assembly swings open. The HO really likes it so I guess we did OK.Edit to add: Also picked up the A&C trim order & 5-1/4" poplar base and delivered them for finishing prior to install in a week or two. I agree wood is good...tired of termite barf.
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Today I built a teller line. Assembeled it actualy. Me and one other guy. Pretty good day. Tommorrow is undercounter, and S.D. boxes. I took a couple of pics with my camera phone.
Doo Dah, Doo Dah.
You guys get all the fun jobs!!!
I painted a deck and a set of stair treads.
(and did 2 estimates)
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I've been running around like an idiot the past few days. I've got 3 jobs that I'm working on, and I broke ground on a big(2,500 sf) addition that I'm GC'ing.
14 hr days get old, and my phone is about worn out. Doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
I do cabinet work as well as contracting (I like the cabinet work better). Today I finished a mobile bar/server and will ready to put the finish on tommorow. Heres some pics.
-Lou
Edited 5/3/2006 7:26 pm ET by loucarabasi
Sorry, here are those pics of the bar/server
-Lou
kudos on the bar
I'll toast to that! Cheers!
Hooked the old Jeep up to the little 4x8 trailer, went & retrieved about a cord of scrap oak, cedar & pine from an immigrated Texan who'd just bought themselves a hobby ranch. The sad part (and the squeamish should turn away now) is that, before I learned of the last remnant, they'd sent 4 tons of cedar & oak posts to the landfill at a cost of fifty bucks/ton.
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Real nice.Doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
Very fine work.
Doo Dah, Doo Dah.
Very nice, Lou! Did you steam bend the stiles?
Pimpin aint easy.
Doo Dah, Doo Dah.
Hey player check out the pub crawl sign up thread. I penciled you in already.
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=73086.1
Doo Dah, Doo Dah.
Thanks for the link.
I just need to know the rally point, and I'll be there Thursday.
My only commitment is the Friday AM tee time, but haven't heard any definite plans for that.
Doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
I want in on the golf, too.
It's gonna be interesting after the pub crawl Thurs. night
Today I was on a terror. Had the day off, got up at the usual time went down to the local lumberyard ( I hate that place) picked up some hurricane strap. Stopped by waffle house, had breakfast with a buddy. Went home got to strapping, went pretty fast. Got done played around in the garage. Went in played around here for awhile. Then a nap attack hit me. Fell asleep on the couch with the dog. Woke up three hours later sweating like crazy. Forgot to take off my sweatshirt and the furnace was cranked. It warmed up quite a bit whie I was sleeping.
Got the first grass cutting of the year in. Took forever to get it right but now everythings been edged and all that so it'll be mucheasier from now on. Cleaned up my mess boiled up dinner and plopped on the couch to watch Dog the bounty hunter. That guy really cracks me up. Anyway I had bigger plans but what the heck there's always tommorrow.
The opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.
Dog the bounty hunter.
Why doesn't that guy ever wear a shirt? His wife freaks me out.Speak the truth, or make your peace some other way.
Last winter I met a guy from Hawaii at a tech class I went to. First thing I asked him is if he had ever met the dog. He rolled his eyes and said yes he said the guy is short too.
I just can't see the guy sneaking up on anybody. Cameras, loud mouth wife, his loud mouth. It just doesn't seem very sneaky to me.
The opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.
Dog's wife aggravates the he11 out of me. If Dog came after me and hauled me in, I could tolerate it. But that b1tch would make me crazy.View Image
went fishing again...
crappy weather... rain... snow... wind...
somebody gots ta do it.....Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
That's the kind of weather I played golf in 2 weeks ago.
Good to know there's some other crazies out there.
GOLF!!!!!
yur crazier than I am.... by a wide margin...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I hear ya. It's enough reason for me to check in every day and fulfill the conditions of my bond.
The opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.
Today I almost went up in a blaze. I was helping our fabricator Kevin install some new hand rails at a site. The welder was in the back of the truck. It ran out of gas so I jumped up in the back of the truck to fill it up. Well I filled it up and pulled the start rope and it fired up. Then it caught on fire. I shut it off and it kept flaming. I hollered at Kevin to get his fire extingusher he started fumbling around looking for it. The fire started building. He decided that he didn't have one, so I tried to smother it with his rain coat. It started getting bigger, it was flaming around the plastic gas tank at this point. The bad thing was I didn't really have an escape route because the ladder racks are so high in the back of the truck that you'd have to climb up over them to get out. "Oh eck this is turning into a bit of a drama." I thought to myself. Behind me was the cutting torch all set up with the hoses hanging over the side. That's not good to have around in a fire either. So I shoved the welder off the end of the truck and Kevin finaly came up with a garden hose and put it out.
Come to find out the shop foreman a real d1ck head was told twice that it needed fixing. This is the second time he's put it back in service broke.When I was leaving this afternoon he had the gall to try and blame Kevin. I walked away to the sound of Kevin ripping him up one side and down the other. I'm just glad I don't have to wear mummy clothes.
We got another welder and finished out the day cutting and welding and grinding and painting. UGH UGH real mens work.
The opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.
tied flies...
took a nap....
hard work tying up those flies and not hurting them...
talked to Pif.............
made ANOTHER pot of coffee..Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"talked to Pif.............made ANOTHER pot of coffee."I noticed you were a-yawning by time I got done boring you;)
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actually it turned out to be two pots of coffee..............
ROAR!!!!!Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
today was major crappy weather....
so I prep'ed the gear for the weekend....
sumbuddy gots ta go after all 'dem fish....Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
That sounds like a he11 of a time. I worked with steel for quite a few years and the only thing I managed to do was to set my shirt on fire from grinder sparks. Wasn't very exciting.
I spent today cleaning up and fixing the garage/shop. put in a new "attic" for lumber storage, vaccumed up bunches of sawdust, got asthmatic. I could be out there for a couple hours at a time before I started to get wheezy, and then I came in here and looked at BT. If I can ever uncover my tablesaw again, I've got some window sashes to work on. That may still be a couple days out though.
zak
Couple months ago, I was wearing a sling set-up after my shoulder operation. Haad to show the helper how to use a grinder right. He got the hang of it and I went walking off to find something else to keep me oput oif trouble...inside of my elbow starts getting hot - real hot!
Darn spark had burnt through my sweatshirt, chamois shirt, henley shirt, and was having a party under the edge of the sling, smoking like a cigarette...and it ain't no fun flailing and flopping around with a newly rebuilt shoulder...
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I was just reading some Darwin Awards stories that would fit right in with that one, 'cept they're self-induced...I gotta storey from thirty years ago about a truck, a fire, and a drenaline I'll have to tell ya sometime
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this one I gotta hear...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Since you asked -I was living in a mobile home in a trailer park in Florida - you know where that is...So for the amenities, they had a paved basket ball court, a tennis court and a pool. not everybody appreciated these things well enough to take care of them. It wasn't the most high class mobile home park in town, you understand.So there was a dumpster or two next to the basketball court. It got full, and somebody parked a used sofa rioght in front of it so the city truck couldn't empty it.Theings went downhill from there. Pepople still brought their trash and left it in a pile anyway. Pile was getting pretty big. I had a two ton flatbed and I'm a guy who walks around solving problems instead of creating them. I struck up a deal with the management - I'll clean up that mess for X# months of free rent.so I start loading - after one trip to the dump I figure out that I could burn a lot of this crap and save trips... so I start a fire near the perimeter. Throw a little on, and load other stuff to the truck, throw a little on...After a couple more hours, the truck is almost loaded, I take a break to wait for the fire to die down. After a few minutes, I notice a tiny wisp of smoke - a tendril about like would come off a cigarette - from down in the middle of the pile on the back of my truck. I thought I'd parked far enopuigh back and kept the fire small enough, but some ambitious ember wanted to go for a ride and see the other side of town, I guess.by time I had jumped up there, I had a regular flame 12" tall from a seat cushion in the sofa that was now covered by things like TVs, Refridgerators, Bicycles, stuffed bears - you get the picture.So as the adrenaline hit my system, it took me about four or five minutes to completely unload that whole truck which had taken a couple of hours to get loaded up. Appliances were flying everywhich way! I still remember when I grabbed one end of that sofa to wheel and chuck it, that small flame chose that moment to turn into a rolling ball of flame that ran the length of the sofa and hit me in the face as I was heaving her overboard. About that time I notice the fire dept rolling in to clean up. I got a lecture about open fires, the management of the park got a fine for letting the crap pile up in the first place, and the town sent crews to finish my job later in the week.And the kids had a place to play basketball again. I left the scorched spot on the bed of the truck as a reminder to be more careful. The crinkly hair on my arms and eyebrows helped for awhile too.
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I hate when that happens. :)
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
Yeah, but there's no better rush than an adrenaline rush!
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You got that right.
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Built an ornamental hood surround (for lack of a proper term). It is built of many layers of moldings--28 pieces in this--took most of the afternoon. Tomorrow I install it.
Hope it fits. ;-)
Looks good."I always say they should make killing people legal. Of course, if they did, I would probably be the first one killed."- Barry Bonds
it better fit!I checked it should just fit...more pictures in a day or two.
Hung an exterior entry door and trimmed it out.
Went to the dentist for a tune up.
Hung out at the lumber yard and got in the way, bigtime!!
Grunge on. http://grungefm.com
Man I had a great day. My boss owns a three unit apartment building, triplex is what he calls it. Anyway it's right next to the university campus, which is why he bought it. Two of his daughters live there. One of them shares a unit with another girl, and the third unit is an older hippy dude that tells us all about the wild parties they have there.
Anyway I went over there today to tune up his surveilance cameras, and check the lights etc. Did all that. Most of it involved fixing the in house monitering system. So for the most part I was in the living room surrounded by chics in their jammies.
then I helped form up a patio and walkway, then shoveled gravel, and loaded up the excess dirt. Tommorrow we pour ten yards. Sixty percent will have to be wheel barrowed in. Fun, fun, fun.
It's a bonus though working so close to campus. First warm days of the year and all the girls are letting it all hang out.
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
Finally got a 15 gauge nailer that I won on ebay a while ago (won? what am I saying? I paid for the thing.) I spent this afternoon looking for trim to finish up around the house. I ran out of lumber pretty quick.
Also, I cut down an old double hung window that I had taken out a couple years ago, made it into an awning window, and replace an awning window that was starting to rot, and boarded up. Makes my basement 200% lighter. Now I've got to get back to sanding cabinet doors, so I can paint them and get them back on before I just get used to having them off.
zak
Watched some more testcases run. Answered three emails.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
How many days can you drag it out?
The more time on campus the better.If you have any poo, fling it now.
I don't know. I'm the king of longevity on jobs so it might be awhile. :)
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
Where's the pics?
or at least the surveilance tape.
Come on, don't lead us on and then let us hang.
When I bought my camera phone I thought it would be so easy to take covert pics but it aint that easy. So for now I'll have to keep them burned into my memory. Every time I close my eyes I can look at them.
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
Every time I close my eyes I can look at them.
Too much information.If you have any poo, fling it now.
Started a real kitchen today. Set the vanities, and wall cabinets. Back tomorrow to finish. I'll try to remember the camera.
If you have any poo, fling it now.
Poured concrete. It was supposed to be 10 yards but turned into 13. We had to wheel barrow most of it . Out of 4 of us myself and the bosses future son in law were the only two that could lift a wheel barrow full of concrete. One of the guys was my buddy Larry I wasn't gonna let him do it, and the other guy was our over paid and under talented carpenter. He broke his back a few years ago so he wasn't up to it.
The bosses future son in law is a beefy little early 20 something frat brat drop out. He's been working with us for awhile. Nice guy but an air head. Pretty funny to work with just because of his view of the world. Totaly clueless. Anyway I was 4 laps up on the little wuss when we got done. Yea the old man wins again!
Got another 3 day weekend, and the wifes out of town till monday. Gonna get up and hit the trails for a bit with the pooch in the morning and got an eye doctor appointment in the afternoon. I picked up a gallon of Sherbert at the store last night, I'm gonna party like it's 1999.
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
Went back and installed the finished treads and risers on the house I just finished framing. There stairs are going to be carpet so installing them now isn't going to hurt anything.
Then built a box for the camera for the commercial I talked with with you guys about. The box will help protect the camera during the rest of the construction in this house while I frame the one next door.
I am all about you keping your eyesight intact with your firepower sittin' around. ;-)
Remodeling Contractor just on the other side of the Glass City
Here's my project du jour...a doctor's office (home office). Installed cabinets and support for the countertop, built and installed cubbies, and built a plant shelf.A gorgeous spring day!
I spent the hole day making jigs for my next cabinet job (alot of radius work) I will start a picture thread of the whole job. Inspired by Mr Smith. I also played with a toy hovercraft for about an hour with My neighbor who builds countertops.
Be back soon, Lou
Cleaned out all my tools from my van today so I can vacuum it, wash it, put the bench seats back in, and get ready for my golf trip to Myrtle Beach next week.
I've got 4 guys and all their gear going with me, leaving early Monday.
Leaving the wife on her own for 7 days.
Today I did a kitchen showroom punchlist...so now the job is really done (finished most of it a couple of weeks ago, but was waiting for a countertop and some hickory baseboard).Then started another job. Tore out an old dark walnut stained dutch door & built & installed a new jamb for the doorway.Earlier in the week, I got the urge to use up a bunch of trim & misc. wood that has accumulated in the shop. I had enough random stuff to trim the windows in the family room & dining room.The stuff is left over from about 10 different jobs, is five different colors, and is a crazy combination of maple, cherry, poplar, & pine. Cabinet tall fillers, lightrail, crown, & base turned into window trim.Two more rooms are trimmed now & DW has improved her disposition.
Took much of the day to do what I figured was just a morning task: Removing an inappropriate window and the short sections of clapboards that flanked it, and installing felt paper and new clapboards. A trip to the lumber yard ate up some of that time. And multiple trips up a 24-foot ladder slowed me down, too.
Then back at the shop, glued up the last of six divided-light mission-style cupboard doors for another client.
Tomorrow, back to the first house to start work on restoring/recreating a side porch (1870s Italianate house).
My third week now trying to do this professionally. The hardest thing is upping my pace ... still find myself tinkering along in D-I-Y mode.
I finally read through this thread last night trying to get a sense of just how much you long-time pros manage to accomplish in a day. Inspiring!
Allen
Close your eyes and hold your mouse over them so we can see too.
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SNORK!
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
I had fun with this one... set a $2k window 30-some feet in the air. The bump-out prevented lifting it with the pump staging so we hauled it up with a block and tackle from the wall brackets under the roof.
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Lemmee get this picture right -
Daad has a rental his daughters live in near campusWhere they have partiesand he has a monitoring system?
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Yea aint it great!
Actualy the cameras are house and yard entrances. It's kind of a crappy neighborhood at night. It's a piece of mind thing. Anytime they throw a party in the yard. The vcr gets unplugged by "mistake"
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
She fit.
WHOA!!!!
don't ya just love it when a plan comes together.........
nice... Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Not too bad for a HD hack ; > )
Home Depot Hack????
can't buy that...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Believe it or not, I built that hood & installed it as part of a Home Depot cabinet install. I get about 1/3 of my business from HD.
found it hard to believe that work was coming out of HD installer...
cleaned up after a few too many....
so Hack it isn't though..........Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Thanks. I've had to clean up a bunch of those jobs too. Tomorrow I'll be cleaning up after myself though. I'll be back at that job to finish putting on knobs & pulls, vac out cabs, etc.Couldn't quite finish today, but need to be on another job Monday.
Nice.
Looks great."I always say they should make killing people legal. Of course, if they did, I would probably be the first one killed."- Barry Bonds
Pretty interestiing.
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
I landed a job installing Custom Wood Stairs. Woohooo!-----------------------------------------------------------
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Congratulations! looks like nice stuff. Don't show them any pictures of your shop though, LOL.
zak
But that was my main selling point! LOL
Edit: I gotta change that signature of mine
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Pretty decent day. Drove downtown with some other guys removed a fire door and took it to storage. Drove to Salem Indiana Installed a deal drawer and 16 foot BR window. (heavy sumbatch) Drove back to town and finished up the day helping a couple of guys put in a drive thru system.
Pretty active compared to most recently.
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
I slept in to about 7, and then sat around. Met a kitchen designer around 11 to go over a few jobs, came home. Drove to a kitchen showroom picked up a couple checks, and then went to the local watering hole for happy hour. "I always say they should make killing people legal. Of course, if they did, I would probably be the first one killed."- Barry Bonds
Wow that's rough one buddy. How did you hold it all together? LOL
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
Years of hard work, and training."I always say they should make killing people legal. Of course, if they did, I would probably be the first one killed."- Barry Bonds
after time with that interior designer, you deserved a happy hour
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I spent the best part of the day sending exemplory plans to our land planner for a rough draft of a program booklet she is doing for our new residential development.
An exemplory plan is attached for the custom home section. We also have a strater home section, move-up section and perhaps some apartments and townhomes. Starter homes and move-up will probably appear similar to the Neo Traditional attachment. the custom home section will be wide open, but subject to an Architectural Review Committee.
The plans are only examples for her rough draft of the program booklet.
I am having lots of fun working on this project, and the land planner has been great.
Went to kill a job list / punch list to get my schedule cleared. Got all of it done.
Then they added a few more days of work.
Back to the squirrel wheel.
I guess I'm glad that everyone is happy enough to keep wanting more but when you go do a day's work and generate two more you start to wonder.
Remodeling Contractor just on the other side of the Glass City
Odd day today.
Ran some 1/4 round, and swapped some doors on a kitchen in the morning.
Glued up a fiberglass tub surround in the PM. I'm feeling more and more like a handyman everyday. Fill in jobs suck, but I slacked off too much already this year.
If you have any poo, fling it now.
Today was me day. Well yesterday was too. Anyway, got up early got my haircut. Love my barber. Ex marine who gets distracted way too easily. For the most part he's pretty good but get him talking basketball or gardening and all bets are off. You never know what your gonna come out with. One time it's hi and tight the next time it could be just a couple of snips and out the door. I love it. It's not uncommon for him to tell you to be in at 06:30 either. He and his wife sold their shop in town and semi retired and he converted their garage into a shop. They only like to do their old customers, I've been going to them forever so I'm in the club.
Anyway after that I came home and worked on cleaning the jeep and playing with the dog. Then we decided we better go to petsmart and load up on food for the month. She has a ball riding down the road. Got to have her nose out the window most of the time. When she aint doing that she's got her front legs propped up on the center console leaning on my shoulder watching the road. She's forever trying to tongue me, it's a big game. I'll be zoned out driving and she'll try to slip it in, then I'll shoosh her away and she act like nothing happened. It's got to be hillarious from the other cars watching.
Which brings me to now. Just woke up from a nice nap after a dinner of steamed mussels and roasted tomatos. Man that was good. In a little bit. Sherbert! And the grass is already cut.
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
I ran the two piece crown in my family room, hallway, and most of the sitting room today. Chair rail too. Now I'm very tired and my wife is making me a calzone for dinner. Had the Sox on the radio, the dog under my feet, and a nose full of saw dust. It was a good day.
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Replaced a rotted threshold and stairtread.
Built a base cabinet and left it clamped up 'till monday
shook my head at the rain and came home
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Rode my bike 30 miles in a 15mph wind.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
Met with a Menards Store Manager early this morning about the 5 kitchen displays we are installing in the showroom over the next two weeks. Tiled a tub/shower surround in a crooked room...that was fun--not.Just finished off a plate BBQ chicken, beans & chips, still working on the beer.
That means you put another 45 miles on your face, old man!;)
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Your wife better get home before you stop trying to avoid the dog's kisses.
LOL. No doubt.
We have a scoring system. If the dog gets me it's a point 1 to nothing. I'll call the score out all day. She'll hear me scream. "Damn it 2 to nothing! Blech!" The dog just snickers. The wife has a rule if I ever score a point she's leaving. So if I ever want to get rid of her I just have to yell. 2 to 2 !
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
My wife says 1 to 1 would do it for her.
Post pic of said dog."With every mistake we must surely be learning"
I call that tongue the waterslide.
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Really a good looking dog Gunner. What's Aireka weigh, about 60-65 lbs? And how did you come up with the name? Does it have a special meaning to you?View Image
I am a little late with this as this was my day fri. Finished staining some oak stair nosing at landing into my garage shop as transition for my ceramic tile floor I Did 2 weeks ago in the mud room / entry. Whent for coffee to mom and dads, the had nap and the drove to small town 45 min. away and was a extra for a movie being shot there! Took about 3 hrs. for the shoot ( which will probably end up on the cutting room floor! ) Was a neet experience. Now back to reallity !
IF IT WAS EASY, EVERYONE COULD DO IT !
45 lbs.
It took us a week too come up with a name. We tried them all but she just ignored us or it didn't sound right when we called her. I finally offered that the best name for her would be Erica because she had the same passion for trouble and gymnastics as our niece by the same name. We decided to change the spelling to Aireka to make sure the kid or her mother didn't get a complex about it later on. Italians are so emotional about that stuff. And it better describes her airborne prowess. She can make a pretty crappy frisbee thrower like me look pretty good with her saves.
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"She can make a pretty crappy frisbee thrower like me look pretty good with her saves."That is an important trait to have in a dog. I throw the old tennis ball for this retriever everyday. One day, last month, she went and brought me a new tennis ball. 8 > )
LOL They always find a way to give you the hint.
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The day is young...but yesterday I used a whole set of crochet widgits to staple an ornry kid to the turf...didn't hold him for long...need more widgits. It was the highlight of the holiday get together. 8 > {
I have to do some catching up.
Friday afternoon, left for camp. Fished Saturday morning. Had my limit by 11am, so I guarded the beer cooler until 4 or so. Took the Volvo off-roading on the way back to camp. Fresh trout for dinner.
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Came home Sunday am, and layed around watching baseball.
If you have any poo, fling it now.
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Edited 4/17/2006 4:21 pm ET by dustinf
Today, finished up the kitchen I started on Thursday. Total of 15hrs, but spread over 3 days. All the kitchen cabinets, plus 5 vanity cabinets with tops.
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If you have any poo, fling it now.
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Edited 4/17/2006 4:24 pm ET by dustinf
Spent two hours on the line with tech support, resolving a password snafu. Luckily I was able to twist an arm and get someone in Canada instead of the person I originally got in India.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
Haven't had the camera handy to download pics in a few days, but I've had a couple good little projects.
Made a set of doors for my garage the other day- the faces are free 1/4" topsheets from my hardwood guy, and the trim stuff is 3/8" doug-fir and mahogany scraps that I got from for free from somebody who had a pile from a folding-door company. 2x4 and foam cores. They're 8 feet tall, so I can finally get big stuff in the shop easily. The old ones were about 6.5' tall.
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Yesterday, formed and poured a new little sidewalk that my wife layed out around garden beds and lawn waiting to happen. With the warm weather we've got here, I stripped the forms today.
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Also poured a concrete countertop for the laundry room last week- I might redo it though. I have a tendency to pour it way to dry, and end up with lots of bubbles. I keep thinking "dry concrete is strong concrete". I need a little note on the back of my hand that says "water is good".
Today was my birthday- I ate cherry pie for breakfast, went on a nice bike ride, and sat around in the sun and read most of the day. nice.
zak
Edited 4/23/2006 10:14 pm by zak
It's snowing today in the mountains of Colorado, so I'm getting caught up on BT and some much needed rest.Attached (if I can figure it out) is the wall my wife and I finished yesterday. First time hanging cedar shingles. They are a pain, but they sure do look good when you're done.-Rich
very nice...
and felt too..
way to go...
I'm at 11,000'... Kanoshas....Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Thanks! You guys getting any of this snow, or is it just a Front Range thing?Felt: I just like it better. Glad to be about done with those plastic capped nails though. I hate those things.-Rich
pulled out and went down to the front range for some of the nicer weather...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Built a sump assembly for a farmers irrigation pond.
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Yesterday I played golf with my dad. Today I started a big deck job. Spent most of the day setting up staging, and demo'ing the railings/built in benches.Doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
You're the man.
I goofed off most of the day. Did a drawing for a deck/porch job, and did the material take-off. Then, went and bought a new truck.Doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
good lord did you buy that toyota thingy already? Let me know when they're available with a turbo diesel toyota engine, I'll buy one then.
Looks like a sweet ride, if that's what you bought.
zakzak
"so it goes"
I wish. I ended up with a Tacoma.
I asked about a diesel option in the FJ, and the guy looked at me like I was from Mars. I don't understand why Toyota won't distribute their 4 cyl turbo diesel in the US. I've read good things about the engines, but you have to live in Austalia to own one.Doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
Today I did some millwork for an 1870s porch I'm re-creating. Looks like 10 minutes' work, but it took me much of yesterday and today to do the glue-ups, templates, saw set-ups, bandsaw work and final sanding. Tomorrow I'll prime-paint and install.
Some of the pieces shown below. The moldings will be cut to fit on site.
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-Allen
Got instructions on metal roofing last night, roofed the garage and a little porch roof today. Done by 6:30 pm, and I took lots of breaks to snack and check breaktime. I'm sold on metal roofing- I like the looks and the installation time.
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By the way, nice work Allen- it definitely doesn't look like a few minutes worth. You seem to have found a good niche.zak
"so it goes"
We also spent some time with Metal today, replaced the blade on 80XT, 85 miles of Urban driving to get the parts. $223 in Greens for the blade & 7 high grade bolts & nuts. 15/16ths lug wrench & 20 mins of time to replace.
All in all a Good Day! Back to moving dirt.
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The last two days have been pretty full days. Stayed out of town last night in order to get done.
Finished up the teller line we started Tuesday. Set under counter, wired vats,Set S.D. boxes. And managed to move the whole teller line five inches down, and an inch and a half out. Fricken fracken architects didn't take into account the five inch thick end panel on the teller line. Wouldn't let the vault door open. So we had to remove the end sit down station and send it out to be modified.
It must have been a productive couple of days the trailers full of garbage.
Doo Dah, Doo Dah.
Today was one of those days to enjoy. Weather near gorgeous and I did squat all day. It was HER birthday, so I made coffee and did whatever else I was told. Even my helper brought over doughnuts and coffee, then did a clean up where he was working and left early for the day. we went shopping for a bit (OH JOY) then came back, went to a church function and a 4 hour dinner at our favorite rest. - on the house.
Actually a good week. Yesterday, the owner of the same restaurant took us out to a 4 hour professional wine tasting, complete with 10 passengar limo etc., also on the house. Never had $400/bottle champagne before. We had to pay for dinner last night. At least we didn't drink too much wine (at dinner). The day before, we broke at noon and went out with the chef's headwaiter for 4 hours on me. Take that IMERC! <G>
Tomorrow, back to Carhardts and Estwings, like it or not. (If I play it right, I may be able to finagle one more good dinner out of the week though.)
Don K.
EJG Homes Renovations - New Construction - Rentals
I think I did a bunch. I had a big enough garbage pile. That's what I hate about a couple of our helpers. Your inside steaming away installing the heck out of stuff, and they're outside working away.(You assume they are anyway) You come outside and find them farting around like they have nothing to do. The result? This pile of garbage. The guy was just bringing it all outside and tossing it asside. Instead of dealing with it. I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.
This was from yesterday actualy.
Wake me up before you go-go.
DOH! Forgot the picture.
Wake me up before you go-go.
I spent the day cutting concrete with a grinder, and chipping out grout with a cold chisel.
A good customer of mine(about 30% of my business) called with a "problem" at one of their small 2 story, 8 unit apartment buildings. I get there to find black tar like streaks running down the walls. The ceiling is old extruded concrete planks with grout in the joints.
Turns out the roof had a severe leak a few months ago, and some rain water must have been trapped on the concrete ceilings. The tar color must have come from the roof, but I have no idea. Met with the engineer this morning at 7am, and he said it wouldn't compromise the structure to remove the grout in the failed areas. So I went to work with the angle grinder, and chisel. I'd guess about 200' or so of 1/2" wide grout lines is what I removed, and regrouted with sandmix concrete.
Done around 12:30pm with 4 blisters.
Then, I went and got my wisdom teeth removed. Fun day.
The only saving grace is the drugs, and the promise of a day off tomorrow(first in 3 weeks).Doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
Spent the day watching test cases run. Had a meeting to go to, but got there and some other group had hijacked the meeting room, so it was cancelled.I can't bear the excitement!
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
Your job has to be right up there with air traffic controller, and race car driver.Doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
Yeah, they have to have special psych consultants working with us so we can handle the stress.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
"have special psych consultants working with us so we can handle the stress."
Some places have special stress counselors working with you so you can handle the psyche
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Yuck on both of your deals.
I thought mine sucked. Got in at one this morning from Paintsville. Went in at six and loaded up again and went back. I got to sleep about an hour on the ride in last night, but the helper they sent today with me can't be trusted to drive without supervision. I've tried letting him drive before. Last time I was doing paperwork while he was driving, looked up and the speedos pegged out and the load on the trailer was loose, just flopping around. He was even watching it,waiting to see what it would do.
Wake me up before you go-go.
Grouted tile, scheduled work, set appointments, sold myself.
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Replaced 75' of fascia board to make room for gutters, and single(double) handedly killed 5000 black flies, shouldn't't be as many tomorrow!!!
Northeastvt
Had a bad day; messed up the finishing on some cabinet doors and now need to strip and start over.
Set up an appointment with a potential client.
Am about to type up a sizeable bill and send it out.
Took some photos of another job I'm working on. Re-creating an Italianate porch. Last week I posted a shot of a pile of custom moldings and decorative brackets I fabricated. Here's a photo of some of it installed (ignore the knotty pine clapboards ... they were installed before I got on the job).
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Had a cake day. Went to do an equipment turnover and product training on a new branch.
Did a training session about eight. I love training, it's part teaching and part entertainment. The girls were in kind of a hurry since they had to be somewhere else. When I got done one of the girls asked if she could go through the training again? The installation coordinator asked if I could hang around till one? It was pouring rain out so I said sure. We get paid for whatever time we're on site anyways. She didn't make it back until 2:00. She was definatley the hottest of the group from the morning.
She explained that she had never worked a drive thru before and wanted to be as familiar as she could before they threw her to the wolves first thing Monday. So for the next hour we played drive thru. Going through all the scenarios,and practicing with the equipment. I went out and played stupid customer, impatient customer the whole nine yards. We had a ball. I kind of wished we could have done it naked, and kissed alot but I'll take what I can get. LOL.
Wake me up before you go-go.
>>>>I went out and played stupid customer, impatient customer the whole nine yards. We had a ball.<<<<Well why didn't you tell her that the most important part of the training was "horny customer" ???
The destination is not the point. The completion is not the point. Enjoy today. If you can't enjoy today, then what is the point ?
That's an idea.
Wake me up before you go-go.
I started the day off with building 4 cabinet grade doors for built in bookcases. Finished the day off with digging holes for footings for a deck... Fun, Fun... Actually finished the day off with a couple of well placed adult beverages...
I sent PETA steaks for Christmas.
The bosses are too busy to do the tiling these days, so I've taken a crash course (Usually I just cut tile and grout). I now have a couple floors, a shower and this backsplash that I can call my own.
Finished a 3 day restoration of a deck. The high falootin' builder who built the thing 25 years ago and "only does the best and million dollar homes", never used any flashing between the clapboards and the ledger board, carpentry 101 stuff. Top of that the ledger was only nailed to the house with #10 com and it was doug fir. Of course this was on the shady side of the house with the Delaware River 100' away so everything was just gone. I reached into handfulls of mush and ribbons of wood. Luckily the deck was only a few feet off the ground as it was ready to fall off the side of the house. The sill in the house under the floor joists was also shot. All of this was covered up by a piece of siding. What was thought to be a two hour 'just replace this spongy board on my deck' type of job turned out to be three very full days of wood replacement and rot repair. I did it right, flashing, tyvek, siding, new framing, new decking, new sill, soaking ends of wood with anti fungal and preservative, restained the siding. Looks like no one was ever there except Mr. Clean, my highest compliment.As long as there is water and old wood, there will always be bread on my table.
Very nice. Sometimes you just got to jump in.
So far today I drove down to the John Deer dealer and ordered a coil for my mower. But the exciting part was on the way back I stopped by the local Nextel dealer to pick up a new case for my company phone. I pulled up to the door and one of the girls was standing there, she got all excited and started smiling like she knew me. As soon as I got out she started blabbing away. The store is in a mini strip mall thing with a couple other stores, I could have been going to anyone of them for all she knew, but I went into hers. I told her what I was looking for and she drug me right into the store still blabbing away. There was another clerk at the cash register fiddling with her phone, and a guy next to her staring at some phones on the wall.
Finaly the girl waiting on me punched me in the arm and whisperd that she thought the guy was going to rob them. So it was obvious that she wanted me to hang around until he left. So I figured I better be able to smother him, I went over to the shelves he was at. The girl that was with me went to the tanning salon next door, and the girl at the register started engaging him in conversation. He started getting nervous, all of a sudden he had everyones undevided attention. I worked it out in my head. I was unarmed except for my Spydeco knife. I had my ASP baton in the car so that was no help. I still had a huge advantage on him though. I wasn't going to lose. If he made his move I was gonna wind mill him and go for the take down. By the time he recovered from the shock I'd have him locked out. He lost his nerve and left. I stayed with him all the way out so he couldn't lunge back. He went to the store next door and I waited to see if he was gonna come back. He came out with nothing and left. I wrote down his license number.
The other girl came back and told me that he had been in earlier, and had stayed next to the register scoping the place. He had a woman with him, but he had come back and was by himself and stared at the same phones next to the register never saying a thing. You could feel the vibes.They figured he was waiting for the right moment. Then I showed up.
The girl at the door asked me if I thought she was hitting on me the way she almost jumped in my arms when I pulled up. I said. "No I figured you really needed help, or you were trying to pick my pocket, cause I aint got the looks for someone like you to hit on." (She was pretty nice looking.) They got a laugh out of it.
I know that you probably didn't want to hear all that but I'm excited about it. LOL
Wake me up before you go-go.
Was the guy big?
Jon Blakemore RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
No. Almost identical to my size.
Wake me up before you go-go.
Show him the picture with your two handguns. That should take care of it.
Jon Blakemore RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
LOL. I thought I was gonna have to break out Rasta Honky on him.
Wake me up before you go-go.
Were you wearing flip flops? Flare gun handy?
Jon Blakemore RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
If I had time to run home I would have.
Wake me up before you go-go.
It's fuguckin' pouring here! Has been since yesterday evening and isn't supposed to stop until sometime Monday or Tuesday. I'm going nuts already.
I spent a couple hours in the trailer fixing tools and stuff. I was thinking of you and it made me chuckle.... remember when I slept until 9am at Riverfest and we were supposed to meet for breakfast around 7 or so? You said you figured I'd a been up at 5am detailing my wormdrive... well that's pretty much what I did today.
Replaced two saw cords that were missing ground plugs. Replaced 5 or 6 extension cord ends. And changed the fittings on a couple leaky hoses. I just had to get out of the house for awhile.
Tomorrow I think I'll drag some tools into the house and work on some trim at my place. First I'm going to look at this though...
http://boston.craigslist.org/tls/159318689.html
Talked to the guy on the phone today... he said everything is in good condition. I'm more interested in the compressor as a back up, but the rest of it is too good to pass up as well. The total of the lot would be 6 Hitachi NR83A framers, six Skill HD77's, and a fairly new Rol-Air wheelbarrow with Honda 6.5HP engine. Total of $1800. If everything appears to be in good shape I think I'll whip out $1500 cash and see if he bites. It's probably worth the $1800 all day long though.View Image
That looks like a steal.
Jon Blakemore RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
I think so too. I talked at length with the guy and he was surpisingly only about 40. With all those 77's I figured it was an old timer retiring. He said doesn't want to frame anymore, but is going to GC additions/remodels instead. Anyway, I figure I can dump some of it on Ebay cheap if I don't want it all (mainly the 77's) and still come out ahead.View Image
That's a heck of a deal! I'd buy one of those Hitacki guns off of ya if the deal was good. (If you wanted to part them out.)
You've got to be geared up for a second crew by now. Too bad te manpower situation is so bad.
That deal in Ohio still makes me laugh too. I was worried to death that I'd oversleep and you'd be pacing the grounds waiting on "the slacker" LOL. I'm glad it happened. Now I know the truth behind the legend. LOL
Wake me up before you go-go.
If I pick up the whole lot I'd be glad to send one of the nailers along... I'm sure we can work something out. But no paying in bank cannisters this time. ;)
I'm no where near ready to start up a second crew Gunner. Don't know if I'll ever be, but definitely not right now. Things are slowing up here and guys are lowballing jobs to stay busy. Stupid, stupid, stupid. A little solidarity would go a long way. Anyway, that's for another thread. I'm relatively busy, but I'm not cherry picking my jobs like I'd like to be.
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Man! Bank cannisters is my currency! I can come up with something.
I meant equipment wise on the two crews.
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What would it cost me to get a bank cannister mail box routed from the curb to my office (about 30').And from the beer fridge to the lazyboy (20').
Several grand. Want me I should bring a crew?
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Sure, I'll pay in cats.
No way. Cats get terrible miles per gallon.
Wake me up before you go-go.
No witty rejoinder.To return to the original thread...today I picked up a kid from an overnight, had a couple beers, played air hockey with the kids, spent way too much time online, watched a little TV, did dishes, took the dog for a walk.
I'm taking the dog hiking in the morning. Didn't get to walk her today. Because like you I've spent too much time here.
But I do have some promising news. I just back from our local BBQ joint. I went over to pick up dinner. Their new thing is fried fish. When I heard they were gonna start doing fish I assumed they were gonna smoke em. I was really disapointed when I found out it was fried. Tonight I was chit chatting with the owner and asked him why he didn't smoke his fish? He said he never thought of it. I told him I'd kill a man for some smoked fish. He sounded interested. He's gonna mess around with it this week and see what happens. I hope it works, man that would be good.
Wake me up before you go-go.
" kill a man for some smoked fish "
I think I'll be bringin' some toothpicks, too.
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Killing a man with toothpicks is just plain cruel.I'm going to have to report you to the ASPCH !
The destination is not the point. The completion is not the point. Enjoy today. If you can't enjoy today, then what is the point ?
Just call it hors d'ouerves ( sp?)
What about a driveway alarm package? For some reason I woke up from a dead sleep about six this morning and that came out. Got a brand new one that we didn't use on a job. The boss gave it to me for mine but I changed my mind. This is a good commercial unit, one you can fine tune to prevent false alarms.
Wake me up before you go-go.
If your gonna put the Hitachi nail guns up I'd be interested in one. I just looked at one on ebay. If the price was right I'd rather buy direct from you if you say they are in good shape."With every mistake we must surely be learning"
I put the last coat of finish on a laundry counter today. I put it in on saturday. This is one reason I love front-load washers, I get 18 sq. ft of counter space in that room.
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I trimmed out a window, hung some crown molding too, and I get to put all the freshly painted doors back on the cabinets later on. Another day in the life of a remodeler.zak
"so it goes"
Mike,
Sorry I'm so late getting back to you. I didn't end up buying that package so I can't offer you any deals on a stick framer.View Image
No sweat. Where have you been? I hear it's slowing down out there and I wondered if you had taken up a new career or something.
"With every mistake we must surely be learning"
I'm still pretty busy, but yes, things are definitely slowing up some. I'm on my sixth addition frame in a row and am craving a new house frame right about now. I'm gonna go bald or grey if I gotta keep tieing into old work!
Haven't been on line much..... I'm trying to get back in good shape so that's been consuming my evenings. The NE winter does horrible things to my studliness. ;)View Image
winter does horrible things to my studliness. ;)
I'm up 30lbs from last year. The pop tarts, and donuts aren't magically burning up. I must be getting old.
The sad part is my girlfriend ran a marathon in San Diego today, I laid on the couch and watched baseball.
Are you down with OPP?
Hey I just spotted this thread and your sweet deal you're workin on. I you want rid of some of that drop me a line. I pay cash. Sorry to here about everybody low ballin prices up there. Here we're boomin and we're pretty much naming our price and getting it. Just getting things together to start my third crew and could use a good deal on some equipment.Greg
It's always fun to get the adrenaline going, and think of ways to take people down. Of course, I can count on 1 finger how many times I actually had to punch someone.
My favorite technique for shutting someone up is grabbing their nose. Just put the death grip on it between the thumb, and index fingure. It's a little awkward to get a good grip, but it's amazing how well drunks listen when they are a 1/4 turn from turning on the blood. Doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
That's a good one. My main objective was to shut him off fast.
I like the belt ride. Just grab em from behind by the belt and jerk their azz to the floor. Or anywhere you want. Grabbing the bill of their baseball hat is good too. I used to work with a guy that was always trying me. All in good fun. And usualy when we were doing an all night remodel. He'd always start up about two in the morning. It used to blow his mind how fast and easy I could sit him on his butt. After I threw him around a bank one night by his hat and belt he was doing it to everyone. Easy entertainment.
Wake me up before you go-go.
Dang !About a third of the way through there, I thought you were finally going to get to play "horny customer"...
The destination is not the point. The completion is not the point. Enjoy today. If you can't enjoy today, then what is the point ?
All in due time. All in due time.
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Spent all day destroying 1.5KE180A parts to find failure scenario for similar part that failed in a critical circuit.
Pays well anyway, kinda fun also. Smoke and tiny shrapnel.
There's nothing quite like ruining expensive stuff on purpose is there?
Wake me up before you go-go.
I was pretty busy today.
I was moving slower than normal this morning because we went to a 21st birthday party last night. I was taking the college kids to school on the beer pong table, and then we ended the night with about 90 minutes of flip cup. Man, I cannot handle that much alcohol anymore.
Anyway, I wasn't up till 5:45am, my head was thumping, but I unloaded the dump truck into the dumpster. Headed to the lumberyard picked up some more mahogany decking. Drove 35 miles to the deck job, unloaded the mahogany, loaded the dump with the remainder of the old decking. Drove 30 miles back to the landfill by my place.
Had a quick meeting with a customer, switched vehicles(checked in to Breaktime), drove about 30 miles to a kitchen job I started on Thursday evening. Worked there for a few hours, drove to the addition were the foundation was layed this week. Made sure good progress was made, drove over to the block layers house, and dropped of his check. Sat at his kitchen table for 45 minutes, and solved all the worlds problems.
Home around 5pm, showered, and left to meet my future brother-in-law for his lame bachelor party. Dinner, and a couple beers at the local watering hole, now I'm home watching the Tigers shut out the Indians.
This time next week I'll be on the beach in Florida, but I'm not sure it's worth it.
Doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
Hey what part of FLorida? My wife will be there next week also.
Wake me up before you go-go.
Clearwater. My girlfriend's Uncle is getting married at the Hilton on the beach. We're flying down Thursday AM, and coming back Sunday AM.Doncha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
I think she's flying into Orlando. Gonna leave this coming Wednesday and then come back the following Tuesday.
Wake me up before you go-go.
Well, we've been in Clearwater since thursday. It was 45 and raining in Pittsburgh when we left, 85 and sunny when we arrived.
Staying right on the beach with a view out of the patio door. Golfed yesterday at Bellevue CC right on the bay. I could get used to this.
Pictures on Sunday when I get home.
No free internet at the hotel. What a joke. We're visiting family, and I'm piggy backing on their neighbors wireless network.Hate me today, hate me tomorrow, hate me for all the things I didn't do.
I think that's starting to be a new trend. Charging for internet at hotels. F them I like the break.
I talked to my wife last night. She stayed a couple days with her nutso brother in Ocala. He neglected to tell her that he had gutted his very small trailer. Totaly gutted it. She moved over to Orlando yesterday and is staying at a hotel with one of her girlfriends. First shower she's had in two days.
Party your Tipi off! Aug 18th,19th &20th Ask for details.
I finished this little pantry in a small closet over the stairs this morning. Nothing real fancy, but it was a challenge to get everything to fit in the 2-0 doorway.I tried to match their flush oak doors and make it work for them. The bottom third of the space is boxed out for the stairs to the basement. To make some use of the space, I made a small fold down kitchen desk, with a magazine or grocery bag holder below.The upper area was retrofitted with rollouts, a lazysusan and some can and spice racks.I spent two days on this.Anyhoo, Now I'm havin' a beer and listening to a jazz concert in the park behind my house. I like live music!
Nice looking job!
No beer tonight. Took dinner to my mom's, and am doing some laundry so I have clean clothes for golf tomorrow.
I'll have a few beers after golfing.
Live jazz- sweet!
Too lazy to drag a lawn chair over to the park to see the jazz show...I just opened the windows and could hear it loud and clear from the comfort of my couch (didn't really want to be in a crowd either).bein' a hermit.
Nice. You gonna cover that plywood with something ?
I went and got me an real honest to goodness massage today. Man I feel good. Going to bed in a bit then up and at em in teh mrning.
Party your Tipi off! Aug 18th,19th &20th Ask for details.
Which plywood you talkin' about coverin'?The HO is staining & finishing it if that's what you meant...or do you mean the exposed ends of the spice racks? Or are you just razzin' me in general about covering the whole thing up?How'd the "up an at 'em" thing go?
The bottom of the drawers is what I'm looking at.
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The up and at em went great. Hit the woods early had a good walk about and now I'm trying to get my freaking lawnmowers running. Both the rider and the push have decided they don't want to play today. Burns my azz. I hate doing mechanic work.
Party your Tipi off! Aug 18th,19th &20th Ask for details.
Edited 5/21/2006 1:29 pm ET by Gunner
That ply should get sealed somehow...but do I look like a painter? ; o )Bummer on the mowers. I had my rider ripped off this year, right out of the backyard!
(drawback to having an unfenced yard right on that park).I picked up a new Husqvarna self-propelled that will have to do until I can afford a new rider. Just finished mowing about an acre...Whew.Have you seen my mower maintence bench pic? I need to tune up the Echo weed wacker later today.Time for a bike ride around Lake Winona, with my oldest daughter, then a burger and ice cream at the Lakeview Diner.
Sanded drywall in my dining room, that is not my idea of fun. But recently got one of those PC drywall sanders and now it's not that bad.
Made a raised panel jig for my tablesaw.
Modified an old air gun hook to fit my 8-1/4 Skil Saw.
I only golf on days that end with a "Y".
Forgot to put in the pictures.I only golf on days that end with a "Y".
They should drop some birch veneer or something in there.
Between waiting on parts that didn't fix my rider and all the rain we've had. My back yard was about halfway up to my knees. Had to cut it three times with my old push mower. I haven't started it in two years, and then only occasionaly. I really got to get serious about gas treatment. LOL. But too it's credit it straightened up after awhile and did the job. A toast to Craftsman Eager beavers! Good mowers.
Now I got to weed eat and blow it all away.
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I went to the mainland to the dentist today for a cleaning.She said I had the teeth of a 35 year old.I told her false compliments would get her no-where and that it was my job to butter her up to get a discount on the work. LOLthen I picked up a stainless steel counter top for a job.After I got home I openned the mail
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Zak,It looks like you have the screws in the field of the metal, rather than on the peaks.Isn't there trouble with thermal expansion that way ?I'll be putting metal roofing on one of my buildings sometime this summer. And I'll be putting the screws in the field as well. I am just asking because I had heard there were expansion problems this way.The reason mine will be in the field is because I will be using tin that was once the walls of a pole barn, not the roof. And there are many holes to be patched. There will be no choice but to have screws in the field. I guess I'm just hoping to hear there really isn't a problem...=0)
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Luka- everything I've read and heard recently has said that the screws go in the feild. I've also heard that the EPDM washered screws are quite good at doing their job of keeping water out. If you google "metal sales" that site has some information on screw patterns under technical info. But you've already got the holes in your metal, so you're probably stuck with that pattern.
How's the back? Are you up and about again?zak
"so it goes"
Zak and Piffin both,Thank you.I was going to do the screws in the field anyway, because I basically had no choice. There are also some pretty hefty holes torn in the metal that I will have to patch. But it's good to know that the way I will be forced to screw the metal down, is the correct way, anyway.I thought I saw on one of the metal roofing manufacturer's sites that the screws were supposed to be in the ridges.Although, maybe that is only in the ridge where one piece overlaps another, and the screw does not go all the way down into the roof there.I plan on going through a ton of sealant. Mostly lexel. Or the dap knockoff of lexel. (1/2 the price, and so far it seems to work exactly the same. In fact, it has stayed more clear on a truck side window than the original lexel has, on the other side window...)I want to use mostly the lexel type stuff, because I want to collect rainwater off the roof for washing and such, and I don't want the petroleum chemicals from tar contaminating the water.~~~~~~~Still a lot of pain in the back. But I take a handfull of excedrin and naproxin sodium and get back to work anyway, because I figure the back muscles will get back into shape and stop hurting sooner, if I work them some.This weekend may be the days that the first load of logs gets loaded onto the trailer, waiting to be taken to the sawmill !!
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The fasteners belong in the field flats. Whjat you heard is exactly opposite. If fastened on the ribs, then when thermal expansouin happens, the flats try to hump up which lifts them in centers and lets wind play with getting a lift on it, which at the very least eakens the fastener connections
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In the final stages of selling my house. I have been working on it for the past 2 years between 2 other jobs. Total remodel total upgrade. Worked on some landscaping ( planting hastas ). Installed the rest of the door knobs... Touched up the trim paint. And continued the daunting task of organizing all the tools. I will post some pics of the before and after soon. Pretty dramatic...
Measure once > cut once > get board stretcher....
I've been working on an Ipe deck the last 2 days. And I'll be there a couple of days more.
A contractor friend called me last week to see if I had any time available. He tore a muscle in his leg, and can't do much right now. And this deck needs to be done by this Sat., for a party the HO is having.
I moved a couple of jobs around, and am working with another guy to get this done.
So we're using Eb-Ty fasteners, and slotting, and drilling, and glueing every board.
It's slow going, but we got the main deck done today. We still have to finish 2 step platforms, so people can get from the house to the deck without jumping.
Been laying 8" block foudation, for a prefab steel shed,
I ran out of block, I just needed two more to complete
the job. The HO said he had some "over in them bushes
down the hill apiece" so to save a trip to town, I went
and waded in the ole poison ivy thicket picked two of the
nicer ones out and threw them out into a clearing, that
usally dislodges any critters that have desided to make
that block their home.I picked them up and started walking
back to the job site,still had a little bit of crud in the voids
I thought a stick or a piece of vine was whipping around
and hitting me in the leg,I looked down and there was
the cutist little copperhead snake about 18" long hanging
out of said block striking at my carhart pants legs ----
I FREAKED---if an NFL scout could have seen a 300pd.fat
guy run the fifty as fast as I did ,he would have signed
me up in a heart beat,for all you PITA fans put there were
no snakes harmed in the above story. Just one big ole
redneck fat boy mason who hardly can walk because his
legs are so sore. thats whut i done today........DW
I had an all around sh!tty day. Well 2 days really. This will probably end up long winded, but what the hell.
It started last Friday. Received a phone call from a kitchen designer, begging me to squeeze in a new construction job on Wednesday(yesterday). We negotiate a price(with maximum squeeze in markup), I agree, but on the condition I can get it done in a day. He says, "Yeah, no problem."
I show up at the site yesterday, and all is peachy(except that there were appliances to set, which the designer told me there wouldn't be). Get all but one cabinet set, the peninsula sinkbase, and the roughs for the the supply lines are off by 12". One supply line was outside of the toekick. Big problem since these houses are slab on grade. The plumber promises to have the lines moved first thing this AM. My schedule is officially screwed.
On the drive home yesterday I notice my van was acting funny. Nothing major, but funny.
0-dark-thirty: Up and at it. Run to the lumberyard, and get loaded up for the job I was starting this morning. Backing into the customer's driveway my van is making a grinding noise, odd but who has time to worry about it.
11:30am: I head to the hardware store for some parts, and the van is making a real bad noise. I decide to bypass the hardware store, and go straight to the mechanic's. Drop off the van thinking I broke a spring in a rear brake drum.
Noon: I hoof it to my house(about 1/2 mile), jump in my Toyota(which I haven't bought the cap for yet), and head to the hardware store. Of course, they don't have what I need, so 2 miles out of the way to another store. Back to the job, clean-up, and load the Toyota to finish the kitchen from yesterday. Rain is threatening, so I load most of my tools in the cab. Not exactly what I wanted to do with my 4 week old truck.
Get to the kitchen job, it's all good, and finish about 5:30pm. Drive back to the first job, and unload all of the tools.
Stop at the mechanics on the way home, the van is up on the rack, and they are bolting the rear diff cover back on. Naturally, I think that I blew the rear, but the mechanic says it's the transmission. $1800. Fine, whatever, when is it going to be done? Tuesday, OK, I need it back ASAP.
After choking down some dinner, I go out to the Toyota to get some drawings, and notice a huge f'ing scratch in the glove box plastic.
Atleast I'll have to work all weekend.
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Sorry about your luck man, I've had a few days in a row like that as well. Starting with bronchitis on my birthday the 27. Then I show up to a new foundation today to start framing a house. I-joists are there but no material for daylight walls or walkout walls. Call and the lumberyard says trucks on its way.
An hour and a half later the truck shows up and says he'll have to drop the materials nest to the road instead of next to the house. BS I say, put it to the floor and take the truck back in pieces. I have never seen a lumber truck look like the gerneral lee until yesterday, 30 mph in reverse and cranking the wheels sideways was a good show.
Anyway my crew calls in sick all three of them, two frickin days in a row. So I'm stomping through the mud thats about a foot deep hauling lumber trying to figure what the h3ll I did to deserve this.
I finally get on a roll getting the mudsill put on, and the flatwork guys show up saying they are going pour in an hour so find somewhere else to be. I try to leave and my truck gets burried and have to be jerked out by the mud slingers bobcat.
In the meantime the redi mix truck shows up and he must be related to the lumber guy because he's doing 40 mph through a field cranking the wheels just like the general lee. He must have lost it because he ran over my pile of I-joists and ruined them all! Okay well they are buying the next load which will be delivered Monday. I go to leave and my truck is rolling like it 2 square tires. Clean the mud out and the truck still rolls like crap. Pull the front tires and the front brakes that are a month old are ruined.
Well I'm not looking forward to Monday if it's anything like this week.I only golf on days that end with a "Y".
When it rains it pours for u all doesn't it? LOL
I've had a crappy week so far too. Working in Hazard Ky. at a coal mine. Pulling fiber optic cable overhead with nothing but a pickup. Each pull crosses a big azz waste pond in a holler. I'll try to take some pics before we leave.
The bear of it is. This job has been on the books for a month and they didn't even consider how they were gonna do it until last week when they sent two techs down to do it. They didn't have a clue. And neither do I for that matter. But we're slowly getting the hang of it. I spent all day yesterday trying to track down the proper hangers for it. That really chapped my buns. No one put any effort at all into researching it. After about six hours of standing up on a hill, on a cable spool in the bed of my truck to get a signal, so I could call all around the country to figure out what I needed. I found them at a supplier back in Louisville.
There is only two of us and we need four. That's the bear of it. Running back and fourth around on the haul road everytime we need something or to change spots. The tech I'm with is pretty cool though. After about eight hours of boiling in the sun running back and forth and all the other problems we were having he announced."THIS IS A FREAKING DEBACLE!" I almost fell out of the lift.
Anyway we finaly got one pulled today. We have one more long one to pull then terminate them. I'll be home real late tommorrow or some time Saturday.
Hope you hve a better one tommorrow
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So what you been up to lazy azz?
I'm a lineman now. Ran fiber optic on pole lines this week. Pretty fun. It would have been better with the right equipment, but we muddled through. Here's a couple of pics of the poles, and one of me and one of the tech I was working with. Mitch, he's a hoot. They hired him about six months ago. He used to work in a computer store as a tech guru guy. He got fired because he got arrested for evading a cop who was trying to pull him over for speeding on his way back from a service call. It's a pretty funny story but too long for here.
Anyway he's a good guy but no muscles. I had to pack his extension ladder around for him. He's just amazed that we got it all up and stretched and it stayed up. He found out that a comealong and a good pulling truck is all you need.
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>>>>He found out that a comealong and a good pulling truck is all you need.<<<<Keep it up dood.I'll have you out here logging with me before you know it !!!=0)
The destination is not the point. The completion is not the point. Enjoy today. If you can't enjoy today, then what is the point ?
LOL. It seems that the less you have to work with the simpilar it is.
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Yep.Bob tried to get all complicated on me yesterday.I told him, more brain work, and less grunt work. The fewer pieces of tackle you have to use, the better. Likewise, if you use too few, you make things worse. The less digging and cutting you have to do, the better.He couldn't make his way work, on the first job we did. Figured out my way was the best. Didn't want to admit it, and gave up and went to work instead, removing this huge root in the driveway.Again, I told him, dig here, wrap the cable there, and I'll pull it in one piece with the blazer. Twice he did it my way, and it went slick as snot. 4 big, and very long chunks of root pulled out in two very easy operations.The third time, he decided he knew best again, and spent his last 50 minutes here today, totally ruining the chain on his chainsaw, without any real accomplishment.I'll get out my chainsaw before he shows up again, (he'll be back Monday or tuesday. Most likely tuesday,), and finish cutting and removing that root by myself.That root is the reason the logging trailer got broken in the first place. And all the trailer had on it was some windows. I told him we aren't going to even THINK about taking my now fixed logging trailer, full of logs, down that drive as long as that root is there. LOLOne thing about cabling, pulleys, pulling things like that with the truck. etc... You get out there, get it figured out, and get to doing it, and it actually gets to be fun. Bob has mentioned that a couple of times.I think he tries to think of a better way, simply because he convinces himself I am probably making him do more work than is necessary, each time. It's not easy humping cables and chains, and block pulleys, etc, all over, through the slick and deep mud... In the end... After he has wasted an awful lot of energy and frustration trying to do it his way, he does it my way, and discovers if he'd just done it my way in the first place, he would have done less than a third of the work he wasted on his own idea. LOL Now he's done all the work he wasted, and -then- done the work I suggested in the first place, anyway...Each time he does this stuff, he does seem to learn his lesson, and the next time, we do it my way. Get done a lot faster. Do not destroy anything, or hurt ourselves, etc. He's catching on.=0)I want to get the rest of the root done myself before he comes back, because I want him to help me move the black jimmy up along the back driveway, to behind the RV trailer the next time he is here.That will get the jimmy out of the way... And may even get it into a position that I can swap some parts from it.The space where the jimmy is now, will then be used for staging either the big truck, or the trailer, each time we are working on loading up some logs and hauling them to the mill.If we move the black car out to the road for the scrap guy, next... That will give us one more space, to park the trailer when it is not being loaded or used... And I'll be able to finally drive right up to my front door with the blazer.He was watching me trying to back the blazer up the hill in 4wd drive today. (In prep for pulling those roots.) The back wheels were spinning out, but the front wheels were doing nothing at all. This is when the vehicle had lost momentum, and had basically stopped, and the wheels started spinning. If the 4wd was working, the fronts should have been spinning too. They never spun. Not even when they were in the slick mud, and the back ones weren't.Just one more thing to check out later, I guess.=0)
The destination is not the point. The completion is not the point. Enjoy today. If you can't enjoy today, then what is the point ?
"One thing about cabling, pulleys, pulling things like that with the truck. etc... You get out there, get it figured out, and get to doing it, and it actually gets to be fun."
That's very true. This guy spent last week setting up cameras and what not. The whole time he's looking at this pull and wondering how the heck we were gonna pull it off. His boss came down and looked at it awhile and said. "We'll get Rick out here he'll know what to do." Made me feel kind of special. At the same time he was just dumping it on me so he didn't have to deal with it. And that's fine by me. The guy has a workload that you wouldn't believe. On top of that he's trying to get his dream house built in order to sell it (probably at a big loss) because in the middle of building it his wife decides she wants a divorce and half of everything. So I didn't mind helping the guy out.
Anyway all the way down there he's giving himself an ulcer worrying about it. The only thing that hacked me was no one had bothered to research or try to order the proper hangers. That was a day wasted on the phone tracking it all down. (I talked about that a few posts back.) But once we got stuff strung out and actualy started tackling each obstacle as we came to it he was really getting into it. We had a pretty big gully to pull across that's what ate up the most time. After we got that hurdle down it was a piece of cake. Other then dodging copper heads.
It was a miserable week as far as weather goes. But yet one of the best ones I've had in awhile.
The best comment to sum it all up was Wed. night my ex BIL called to see if I could watch my little nephew Ryan Saturday. When I answered the phone reception was bad as always in the mountains. He asked how I was doing. Without taking into account that I was standing in the middle of Wendy's I shouted out. "It F'n sucks, I'm working in a coal mine in Hazard trying to pull fiber optic, with a F'n pickup truck. Whatcha ya need?" Mitch couldn't help himself. He just roared. That was the tagline for the rest of the trip.
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Not gonna get much done today.Been raining hard all day. Coming down right now in what seems like a solid sheet of rain.Kona still out there chasing imaginary intruders...
The destination is not the point. The completion is not the point. Enjoy today. If you can't enjoy today, then what is the point ?
This morning started with thunder but it passed without rain. Laid up all day with a bad knee. Arthritis I think. Called my nephew to cut my grass he said he would after work. Took some hydrocodine didn't help. Laid on the couch moaning. Then the wife came home in a bitchy holier then thou mood so I slapped on the icy hot and cut the grass. Better then putting up with that.
While I was out she made Lasagna, so she must be over for it. Gonna wait for it to cool then it's stuff my face and kick back on the couch with the Sopranos.
Got tommorrow off so I can stay up late.
"Enjoy every sandwich." Warren Zevon.
Tonight is the last episode of the season, who is going to whacked tonight? There are a few left that need it. The season just got a whole lot better when Vito got clipped!I only golf on days that end with a "Y".
I'm predicting Tony gets it tonight.Are you down with OPP?
I hope not, I think Bobby or Phil should get it before Tony.I only golf on days that end with a "Y".
Vito getting it by another crew was a good twist.
"Enjoy every sandwich." Warren Zevon.
I don't know what to think of the show. It's gotten progressively worse since about season 3.
Tonight was weak.Are you down with OPP?
It's like they are setting up a big plot line then nothing comes of it. There's 8 episodes left for next season and I don't see them sewing everything up. I bet they have a lame azz ending like Oz did. Then I'm gonna be mad.
That's the reason I'm not getting into Deadwood this time. Big hype for nothing. Entourage is good just because of the sight gags and jock humor. Forget the rest of them.
"Enjoy every sandwich." Warren Zevon.
I paid for HBO just to see this over hyped season. Everyone was talking it up like it was going to be great.
I guess HBO just has good marketing.Are you down with OPP?
Uhh sorry man. I think I pushed you into ordering it.
"Enjoy every sandwich." Warren Zevon.
I'm blaming you when they shut my electricity off.Are you down with OPP?
I'm guilty of everything. Just ask my wife.
"Enjoy every sandwich." Warren Zevon.
I was in deep sh!t yesterday because some drunk lady mistakenly knocked on my GF's hotel room door in San Diego at AM. Apparently, I wasn't acting sympathetic enough while she was telling me the story over the phone.Are you down with OPP?
Ohh yea. I commit that sin all the time. It's a hard balance to get right.
BUT! Whenever you want to talk about your day they are free to interupt with whatever they want, even if it has nothing to do with what you are saying.
"Enjoy every sandwich." Warren Zevon.
I just don't talk anymore. It's easier that way.
Of course, then I get in trouble for not "opening up".
Are you down with OPP?
You know it my brother.
"Enjoy every sandwich." Warren Zevon.
Dustin, how did your girl friend do in San Diego? It's a big commitment to train and race a marathon. Congratulations to her! My wife and I met in a running club, so she understands when I'm in "training mode." Still, those 20-mile training runs can take a big chunk out of our precious little recreational time.
Allen
She finished, and that was her goal. This was her first full marathon, and a dream of hers. Until her training the furthest she had run was a half marathon. I talked to her today, she is sore, but happy. I don't think she'll run another, but you never know.
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That's very respectable for a first-time marathon. Congatulations to Nicole! I'll bet after a couple weeks, she'll be talking about "the next one." Or, "I think I could run under 4:30. Or under 4 hours." It's addicting.
After my first one back in '81, I said I'd never do another one. But I've averaged one per year since then. (Best 2:39 ... most recent 2:56).
Oh yeah, the thread topic is "what I did today." Spent most of it running around lining up, loading and off-loading materials for a 6'6" x 29' porch. Local lumber yard was out of concrete mix. Had to go to HD 28 miles away. Tried to find some new-fangled ledger lags I saw advertised in JLC; ended up with the old 1/2-inch style. Measured out and set up sono tubes. Customer said he'd supply a cement mixer, but it was a no-show. Have to try to rent one tomorrow. Or mix 20 bags by hand.
Allen
So what you been up to lazy azz?
Nothing exciting. Lots of 12+hr days and money, but little more than hanging cabinets in POS tract homes. Very boring.
I didn't realize the Village People are touring Hazard county.
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It's hard on a pimp aint it?
You should have seen us tightening down hangers. I had to hold the guide wire up in posistion while the other guy leaned over my back to crank it down with a wrench. All the way up in the air like that then the lift would start bouncing. Then one of us would make a remark then we'd have to laugh. From the ground the people had to be saying. "Damn that little guy is really laying it to the big one." "Yea look at em just like rabbits."
Heck of a visual to look at from a distance,
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You won't think that's funny when you hear this coming from the trees.
http://www.laserp.com/dueling_banjos.htm
"With every mistake we must surely be learning"
LOL. I never thought of that.
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What is it you do for a living? Not trying to cause any problems, I'm just curious.
I know you've installed ATMs, now you're running cable?
At least it can't be boring.
I work for a company that installs banking equipment. Everything from BR windows to vaults. Drive up equipment audio for it, all that. Even the security, and camera systems.A lot of it is TIS work. I'm an electrician, but I do everything else as well. We pour concrete, build bump outs, frame walls, drywall, trim you name it. Whatever it takes. About the only thing we sub out is brick work. Long story involving visual presentation on why we don't do that anymore LOL. Once in a while he'll build a spec house or remodel one.
There is two sides in that company Security and Erectors. I'm an Erector. We do all the physical building/remodel stuff. I also do alarm and camera work because of my electrical background it's not too hard to figure out. So it helps alot for instance when we do an ATM install that I can do alarm and video. It saves the hassle of committing a security guy for a task like that.
My boss also owns another company that installs security systems. Everything from industrial to residential. Home automation, access control, cameras, central vac etc. That's how I got into last weeks deal. They were installing a camera system at a coal mine and needed to pull a couple fiber optic lines from one end to the other on the pole liine to run them. Their guys are kind of weinies when it comes to anything adventorus. So I usualy get to go do it.
He also has some farms. That's what I'm supposed to do Tuesday, Camera maintenance on one of them.
Yea it's interesting. And stressfull. The hours are very long sometimes. That's the part I'm getting tired of.
"Enjoy every sandwich." Warren Zevon.
Jack of all trades, huh.
And long hours do bite. Fortunately, I don't have to do that often.
But just think of all that bling yer wife can spend <G>
Yea she's good at that. That's alright my reward is coming in August.
"Enjoy every sandwich." Warren Zevon.
What did you do today?
Today I drove a stake in the ground next to the nice(fancy name inserted here) fern plants for the nice 81 year old lady that asked if I'd be extra nice around them since they had been given to her and she didn't want me stepping on them.
be nice Bambi Meets Godzilla (no, the fern you idjet)
Beware. RFID is coming.
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Last few days (ok, weeks, but I get distracted and do lots of other things too) I've been ripping up my attic, making it ok for living space.
I started to insulate, then decided I needed to do other stuff first. Then I sistered bigger joists to all the old ones, tore out the old stairway, and the closet thing it was half in.
A couple days ago I started building new stairs. About half straight run, half curved- 90 degrees in 5 steps. The inside is an 18" radius. I put the treads on most of the straight stairs this afternoon.
They're just going to be simple stairs to a utility space for the next 5 or so years, while the house is rented out and we're living in berkeley (for my wife's higher education). Hopefully I'll put some nice treads and trim on them after that.
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"so it goes"
Today started out bad, and stayed that way.
First I was thrown under the bus by a painter, just because he didn't want to stain a few door jambs. He convinced my customer that I was trying to rip her off because I ordered pre-hung doors instead of slabs.
After I already explained to the painter(and customer) that I wanted new jambs because the new doors were solid core 6 panels, and the old doors were cheap hollow core luan. Also, because the customer wanted to change the swing of 5 of 9 doors.
Turns out he's not even a real painter, he's a UPS guy that my customer pays under the table to paint.
Then I went and coated a flat roof with tar.You can do it, put your back into it.
If you want to feel better, you could call the IRS on the UPS guy. You think he's paying taxes on the money he's making painting?
I really wouldn't suggest doing that. But it's fun to think about.
You think your day was tough...I moved 2000 #'s of sand and 3000 #'s of pea gavel up a steep windy path with a wheel barrow all day.Sorry to hear about the rogue painter dude trashing your job though.
I moved 2000 #'s of sand and 3000 #'s of pea gavel up a steep windy path with a wheel barrow all day
You win.
I had a strong finish. I went to a customers house for dinner, and sold about $20,000 worth of work.One more week.
Most Excellent.
Opened up the back of my van, new borrowed generator spillled five gallons gas on my wood floor. Get to the job, outhouse gone. Power company supposed to put meter on temporary today, called ,maybe next week.
Load of I joists builder ordered for today delivery, actually ordered for next tuesday.Fed up, tell the guys take the rest of the day off.
My brother and I decide to go get gun nails,his truck breaks down on mixmaster in waterbury.Finally get that fixed, go get nails.
We had a prejob meeting with builder, architect, and other subs scheduled for 2:30.Bulder calls everyone to tell them the directions are right except its the wrong exit number.Forgets to call us. We are an hour late.
So how was your day?
Greg in Connecticut
I fixed a chainsaw for a friend.Saw was bought by his wife's grandfather. Handed down to her father. He ended up with it.He sells firewood as a side job so he really put the hurt to the saw.It seized up. No one could get it unseized. Or at least no one was interested in fixing it for amy reasonable amount of money.Called him up this evening and told him he needs a new spark plug. For what ?Your saw !Yahoo !!I think she was more happy about it running again, than he was.Just between you and me and the wall, I think someone ran it on straight gasoline. No oil mix.Tomorrow I'll be picking up an old Husqvarna 460CD, to see if I can get it running. If I can... it's MINE !!! (Well, I guess it's mine, running or not. LOL)=0)I have been using a husky 360CD for years. The case is all broken up. There are major parts missing. Etc. The 460CD is pretty much complete. Nothing broken on it. Looong bar and chain... The saw shop could not get it running. I am hoping that enough parts are interchangeable between mine and that one, that I can get the 460 running instead.
Only slightly faster than the speed of stupid, since 1957.
(Actually, that's 380CD and 480CD)Just got the 480CD.Shop says, no spark, and not enough gas pressure.Stay tuned...=0)
Only slightly faster than the speed of stupid, since 1957.
Well, I got the 480CD running.As I said, it is a lot more complete than my 380CD.And I didn't even have to switch any parts. So now I have two running husqvarna saws.=0)The new one needs a bit of adjustment on the carbuerator. Basically all I had to do was take it all apart and clean it up.I removed the spark plug, sprayed wd-40 into the cylinder, and then ran the heck out of the thing for a while on a drill motor. Then I put it all back together, and put a new spark plug in it. It started right up !!!They noted no spark, and not enough gas. Apparently they really don't have a clue. There WAS spark, and there is enough gas to keep the thing running. (Does need that tiny bit of adjustment.) In reality, they actually couldn't get it started because the piston had partially siezed in the bore. When I run it on a drill motor, with no plug, and keep spraying wd-40 in there, it pretty much cleans up the cylinder bore. And re-matches the ring to the cylinder.Had I known ahead of time that was the problem, I would have taken the head apart as well, and honed the cylinder instead.Now I have 8 chains to sharpen tonight. 3 of them are mine. The rest belong to Bob, the guy who will be helping me to do some logging.
Only slightly faster than the speed of stupid, since 1957.
Summer is definitely in full swing. I've got a huge $50,000 remodel going in a 4th floor condo in the city by day, and new construction kitchens as fast I can install them by night.
The condo has been a logistical nightmare. I've hauled 30 yards of construction debris from the site to a dumpster stationed at another site 15 miles away. Luckily, there is a fire lane in front of the building, so I can temporarily park in the fire lane to load/unload tools and materials.
Parking my trucks has been a challenge, and I've had 3 parking tickets. The job is finally starting to turn the corner, I have most of the flooring done, and I'm starting to hang cabinets tomorrow. A little more drywall patching, and some custom closet organizers.
Bought another truck today.
I'm gonna break my I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run
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Edited 6/29/2006 8:16 pm ET by dustinf
Fun, fun, fun.
What kind of truck?
Rock the Tipi!
Nothing exciting '85 1 ton dump. Basically, a dumpster I can drive to the dump once a week.I'm gonna break my I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run
Finished a shower repair today. Had to rip down the old walls, install new cement board , and re-tile.
I also mixed 34 bags of gravel mix for deck footings today. My arms hurt, and I even used a mixer.
And I don't have any beer in the house.
News around here says you been getting hammered with Rain?
Heres to hoping your basement is Dry!
Yeah, we've had lots of rain, but it's real bad east of here.
Most of my problems are minor with muddy jobsites. I'm gonna break my I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run
Here's the project that I was whining about a few weeks ago..."I moved 2000 #'s of sand and 3000 #'s of pea gavel up a steep windy path with a wheel barrow all day."It is a post and beam framed dog run.
fished...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
went to Beaufort N.C to the ameracas' sail in, tall ships and crowds
were the norm. spending the rest of the evening with the dearest
of all wives, after she bathes the younguns and puts them to bed.
drank.
added verticle dividers to my kitchen cabinet for cookie sheets, etc.
I used pocket screws. Stock was 1/2" and I only have 1 1/4" pocket screws (for 3/4" stock), so I ran to ace and picked up 1" sheet metal screws. I now know why the pocket screws aren't threaded for the entire screw ... i have ~1/16" gaps where I made my connection. Not a big deal since in a kitchen cabinet, but a good lesson.
bww
dedicated wood screws the next time...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Catch anything?
This is what you missed......
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Lodgepole Pine...Looks like.
10-4 on the Lodgepole, saved a few for Andy C. just in case the Tipi fest gets out of control and he needs some new POLES after the Par-Tay!
This was the Before shot.....
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snow plow...
you must be in Colorado....Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Its still there, guess will be getting into a new line of work.
Think we cut down 30 trees, got a big pile of stash to haul to the dump next weekend, then steak-out the foundation, then fish. 2" of rain in the Metro area this weekend. Also had a good downpour in the Mts. Left @ 4pm due to the rain. Just as well, that being a Lumberjack gig ain't for me, thats some hard work!
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T storms rolling everyday here in the afternoonnn.
got a home for any burnable logs you don't want..Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Today, I paid some bills, balanced chjeckbooks, stuff like that.Got to find out how much DW spent on her last trip to Ireland. That was exciting.
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Went to the Mt. Lot. Hauled 3 large truck loads of the slash from last weekends tree cutting. Brought the slash to the county landfill about 4 miles away. $8 a load was the fee @ the dump. Rained all weekend, stoped at Wally-World on the way up & bought a rain suit, which was the best thing I did all weekend.
Skipped out on fishing due to the rain, by 6pm we had enough of being the Lone-Ranger. Did the 120mi. trip back to the city. Hope next weekend will get more fishing in!
Still raining !
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Today I put a new set of stairs to the basement of my old 1850's Inn/home. It is rather damp down there and I dislike ACQ, so I used 2x12 cedar for stringers with mid-span 4x4 posts under the stringers. The result is quite sturdy.
How do you plan to handle those stumps?
"How do you plan to handle those stumps?"
When we go to dig, they should pop right out, still dont know if were going to dig with a Track-Hoe or a Loader with rubber tires. Were going with a crawl space 48" on an 8"x 16" footing, so we don't have to dig to deep except for the water & sewer service .
Some of the stumps pulled themself out when we were cutting, the type of Pines on this lot don't seem to have that big of a root system.
Started work on a cedar outdoor shower over the weekend. It will be a three-sided structure that joins to the house, and has a shorter "corral" for some garbage cans attached to that.
The pic below is one of the garbage corral sides - decided to make the smallest piece first (in case the "supervisor" didn't end up liking the design/proportions) I haven't gotten around to taking photos of the big honkin shower walls yet...maybe later today.
Justin Fink - FHB Editorial
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Very nice. I've been kicking around ideas for garbage can corrals for awhile. Please post all the pics you can of it.
Tipi fest 06. I'm Packing.
Pulled a toilet and replaced the flange, re-set. I don't like plumbing.
I hate doing toilets, but it seems like I get to do more than my fair share of them, for a DIYer. It's the curse of sorta knowing what you're doing.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
yeah, I sorta know. Know more than I want to about toilets. When you have rentals you have to know some of it.
There are other things I would rather do.
If having a low wage work force was good for a country's economy then why hasn't Mexico built a fence?
I hate plumbing most of all.
Tipi fest 06. I'm Packing.
I think it's the cramped areas where it has to be worked on. All the plumbing I have to do is in a cramped space where I just can't fit easily.
If having a low wage work force was good for a country's economy then why hasn't Mexico built a fence?
Stray turds scare me the most.
Tipi fest 06. I'm Packing.
I worked on my first day of vacation. Tomorrow I will work on my second day of vacation. Getting greedy, and trying to squeeze in another job.
I'll actually go on vacation Friday. Traveling to Reading, PA for my sisters wedding.In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.
You lead the life of an international playboy.
Tipi fest 06. I'm Packing.
should'nt you be at PNC park?
"With every mistake we must surely be learning"
Changed the passwords on eight different computer systems. (Actually, only two terminals, but can access a bunch of others and they all need to have the PW changed every 90 days.) Only have about 15 more systems to go.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
So, who are you hacking now?
<G>
If having a low wage work force was good for a country's economy then why hasn't Mexico built a fence?
Heck, I'm lucky if I can get into my own systems.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
Great, now we have to worry about all the people using the computers you were ressetting passwords on.
<G>
If having a low wage work force was good for a country's economy then why hasn't Mexico built a fence?
Life is Good! Limit was 2 we had 6 at one point, BBQ with a little bacon for cook-in. Love the Native Colorado Cut-Throats
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Coin toss on what we like better, the Fishing or the Scenery.....
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Brings tears to my eyes, and saliva to my tongue. Pass the salt please.
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I installed an oak handrail for a regular customer of mine today.
Their son is dying of cancer. He's in his mid-20s.
He's moved back home until the end, and they needed a handrail on a set of steps. The old handrail didn't go all the way up.
I don't think I'll be charging them for this one.
recreated old vent for addition.new ones are solid pvc.
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Your a Good Man!
Thanks for your efforts, only a few of your kind left!
A quick follow-up to my previous post.
My customer called last night to tell me the handrail was exactly what her son needed and to thank me.
She told me to send a bill, and when I told her I wasn't going to charge her for this, I think she started misting up on the other end.
I really don't think I did anything all that special. Someone had a need, and I was able to help them. I'll bet a lot of guys here would do the same.
I'm misting up just reading about it...and my wife says I don't even have emotions.I just hung a few sheets of rock in a bathroom early, now I'm cleaning out the trailer and getting tooled up for installing cabinets in 3 kithchens in 3 days in 3 different towns (Winona, Rochester, and Wabasha).Yesterday was the Hottest July 17 ever recorded here, 100*...I'm glad it is a bit cooler today.
It was real hot here today.
Fortunately, I was able to find some work in a basement for the day.
Tomorrow I'm back out to finish a deck project.
cut out top panels of cross and bible door, broke a piece of old stain glass out of an old window sash and dropped it into the door.Shep you are a good man , I wish there were more like you in the world!!
How did the deck go?Did a commercial breakroom kitchen today. Just 7 cabinets, a valance, & trim. Did a breakroom kitchen last week too...hmmm...that makes it a trend. Anyway, 3 kitchen cab jobs in 4 days in 3 different towns. The biggest was for a B&B in Wabasha, MN. Strange odd-jobs the rest of the week.
I'm finishing up the deck today.
It'sd been so hot here that I'm only working about 6 hours a day. The older I get, the less tolerance to heat I have, and the more I like the cold.
The deck abutts a pool, so I had to make some gates for the steps to meet code. I just have a couple of odds and ends to do, but I stopped home to get a dry shirt and have lunch.
The customer this AM asked me where the final bill is. I'm guessing that's a good sign.
Talk about back to back (to back) jobs Basswood - hope you manage to finish each kitchen in one day, that domino effect will kill ya otherwise!Justin Fink - FHB Editorial
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I got the exterior walls sheeted on my two story additon in Grand Rapids. Trusses are at the job and should finish it by the end of the week.
This is taking a little longer than expected, installing beams and girder trusses after a house is already done takes a while.
I'll felt the walls tommorrow and might set trusses. What's wrong with me? I could ask you the exact same thing.
What part of GR?
My wife's from Cascade, and still has family there.
I know GR's a pretty big city, and it's unlikely you're working anywhere close by.
Isn't GR a bit of a drive from Battle Creek?
The addition project is in Byron Center, south side of GR.
1-1/2 hour drive one way from Battle Creek.
I am staying with some friends in Allegan about a 1/2 hr drive from here. It feels like a vacation being out of town, too bad I am still working. :)What's wrong with me? I could ask you the exact same thing.
--"Talk about back to back (to back) jobs Basswood - hope you manage to finish each kitchen in one day, that domino effect will kill ya otherwise!"Loose ends are killers...one is completely done, one had no knob or pulls--so we may have to stop back by, and one has all the cabinet & trim work done, but we will go back when the laminate tops are delivered to install them (waited to measure for tops 'til the cabs were in).Today it was trimming a 3/4 bath, Craftsman Style (back-banded, qtr.sawn oak). Just one door, one window, and 10' of base and cap, 3 towel bars, tp holder, grab bar, vanity toekick, etc. Then measured up & redesigned a new construction (LaX, WI area) kitchen and two baths for fall (25 cabinets).
You sound like you have very steady work - is it usually this consistent? or does it typically happen that when it rains it pours?Justin Fink - FHB Editorial
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Actually, I'm home this morning--catching up on paperwork (2 invoices and two bids to write and several phone calls to make), then I have a trailerload of flattened cardboard cabinet boxes to run by the recycle place, and a custom closet shelving job to look at.My assistant called in sick for the first time in a year this morning, and my countertop job for today just bumped to Monday...I'm relieved really.After 3 years as a solo trim guy, I was too busy last summer and added my first employee. The help is a quick study--skilled, reliable and hard working. I'm hustling to keep us both busy enough with mixed results. Our business volume doubled last year during a period that saw both new starts and remodeling permits drop in half...so we are bucking the overall trend in our market.We served 100 customers last year (ave. job 2-3 days), mostly cabinet and countertop installs. This kind of contracting business model requires 3 or 4 new leads per week, and staggering amounts of time bidding, billing, etc.Sometimes we are buried in work, then 2 or three jobs get postponed and we just look at each other..."Watcha wanna do? I donno. Watchyoo wanna do?"If paperwork is fairly well caught up, I work on my house for a day or two.Mostly quite busy, but the bottom line is tight.Getting more repeat and referral business and some larger and longer projects now, so I'm optimistic. So far 40 customers this year (one for a month=8 of our typical jobs).I'm just ramblin' on.
Just cooked up a mess of green beans from the garden. Unfortunately, no bacon or real ham what with my diet, so had to settle for some slices of deli ham.Should still be OK after it sits overnight, though. You can get flavor out of shoe leather if you let it steep overnight.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
Pm went like this.....
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Which lead to this, (limit is 2 per person)....
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So in order to keep it legal, at least I got the first, but not the most,or biggest. About dozen went back,due to the 2 fish limit!
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Fishing, eh?
I did what I had to do, not what I wanted to do.
Did my usual Sunday morning go to prayer meet'n (not what y'all think- I'm Jewish!) and off to spec out a job. Get some nuts I forgot all last week for the j-bolts, then off to pick up the 75# pickling cukes, salt & spices. No vinegar for me! Let's see'm take my blood pressure NOW!
Fill up the jars with the DW, back to the store for more jars & spice, do some invoicing, out to do a little undertaking and back to do some estimating.
What I wanted to do was work on the deck. Weather broke on Friday, rained a little last night & this morning, and I want to get the framing finished.Quality repairs for your home.
AaronR ConstructionVancouver, Canada
"out to do a little undertaking..."
When we were in Laurel, the church pastor was an assistant to an undertaker. You do it as a sideline too?
Don K.
EJG Homes Renovations - New Construction - Rentals
In our faith community members take care of the preparation.
In Vancouver there are about 8 of us men and about 10 women who have the stomach.
As usual, the religious leaders take care of the showy stuff, we do the grunt work.Quality repairs for your home.
AaronR ConstructionVancouver, Canada
Despite spending most of my weekend packing/moving into a new place - I did manage to squeeze in a little bit of a kitchen remodel job. Part of that job was ripping out a tile backsplash...and I sliced the hell out of my finger - really ugly gash with dark red blood - not cool.Justin Fink - FHB Editorial
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Hope the finger heals quick.
Years ago, my brother cut his finger doing the same thing. He needed stitches to close it up.
Since then I've tried to be careful when demoing tile. I've nicked myself, but no scars.
Spent all of yesterday (except the time spent here) working on a program to crunch some statistics. Stupid little program, but it kept me running around in circles all day.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
Pitched a built-in cubbie/bench/cabinet combo for a mudroom to the potential customer, then pulled and replaced some countertops on a dairy farm outside of Fountain City, WI.Got 3 new leads today (2 for countertops & 1 for a small cab job. Record heat today 102*!
I've got a funny story about a tile cut.
I was throwing some demo-ed tile out a window, all gnarled up with metal lath.
Cut the webbing on the base of my thumb, and could see it was bad. Wanted to treat it as easily as possible - Kaiser Permenente won't stitch you up, e-room is too expensive, so I called around to local doctors with my thumb taped over into my palm to hold it shut.
I described the situation; said I'd bring cash if someone could just stitch me up!
Finally found a guy who said he'd do it for $100. Went in, minimum paperwork, a dozen little tight sutures, and I could hammer the day after. Took 'em out myself.
I've learned here that the real tough guys stitch themselves up, so I got some little sterile episiotomy (sp?) kits the last time we had a baby.
Forrest
You have to be kidding...are you seriously going to stitch yourself up next time? That's insane man...Justin Fink - FHB Editorial
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Well, probably not - but on a thread (ba dump bump) here some time ago on personal injuries, several people mentioned doing their own stichwork, so I just figured it was part of the price of admission!
You know, like Stallone did in "Rambo".
Forrest
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You know, the REAL funny bit about my story is that Dr. K.. that I went to is actually a large animal vet!
He said it was okay as long as I wasn't trying to hide a gunshot, like on cop shows.
Forrest
Click and Clack reported on a dude that said "Hey watch this!" That wasn't in your party, was it?
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
Nope!
Hey G80104
that's funny looking ear ring you got there in that picture. hehe
"that's funny looking ear ring you got there in that picture. hehe"
Thats not me, am the guy taking the picture!
Good to see the big guy (Imerc, with Oreo) in his element...
Thanks for sharing those pics!DUM SPIRO SPERO: "While I breathe I hope"
Had him beat for about the 1st hour, then his Power bait must have kicked in, he was pulling out two to everyone I would catch!
at 1st he picked the spots...
last 2 hours I picked the spots....
took a nap to let him catch up...
even did the "fish call" to help him out...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
betcha dindin was good!?!?
HeY _ TO STOP this sidejack: TODAY: DOING MY DAYJOB AND MAKING ALL SORTS OF CALLS WITH CITIBANK AND DEALERSHIP AND HOPING TO GET MY TRUCK TOMORROW!DUM SPIRO SPERO: "While I breathe I hope"
Take it fishing to get rid of that new car smell.
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Won't my being "a gurl"......make that unnecessary? <g>DUM SPIRO SPERO: "While I breathe I hope"
WHOA - drum roll.And God said "Oh, No! I'll never get the smell off those fish"
What ever you do, don't flip the red switch on the dashboard, Gunner.
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I don't believe you said that!
Forrest
how did that go...
blind man...
fish market..
'afternoon ladies..Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Sold a laminate countertop job, started a tile job (kitchen, dining, entry)--that should take about 3 days, had a business meeting with "basswood" stakeholders. Ended up being a 12 hour day. It was nice to get home.
Bailed from work around noonthrity, Wrote the Big Check for the permit ($2.5k+) made a bunch of new friends today.
Found a new place were the Brookies hang out! Small but Tastey!
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drool.......Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Looks like a great spot for a golf course.
Nah, I'm thinking about 3000 condos, and a mall.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
Call it eagle scee acres
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Just think -- you could have a trout stream running right through the mall, for the kiddies to fish in.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
give it time....Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
you reallly know how to hurt a guy..Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
WOW, what a photo!
Forget the fish...I could just sit in a scene like that and be content to "be"...DUM SPIRO SPERO: "While I breathe I hope"
Somebody with photoshop could put you right there in that photo.Not that you are two dimensional in the least
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Alternatively...could keep the image in my mind's eye - for a daydream retreat as required...!
So: what did Miz do today? BOUGHT MY TRUCK HOME!!!
(see Rhinoliner Thread in the shed, will post pics there shortly!)
:-)DUM SPIRO SPERO: "While I breathe I hope"
Couldn't find a cap to fit my fireplace flu, and didn't really care for the appearance of the ones that were available anyway, so formed a screen for the flu from expanded mesh. Was reminded once again that it's impossible to work with expanded mesh without becoming a blood donor.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
Went to the Mt. lot. Installed the batten boards, staked out for the foundation dig & set the ped for the temp power. Rain on & off most of the day, but with the help of myn oldest son we got a good day of work in & no fishing.
Hope to be diggig next weekend & maybe start forming the footings!
So whats a good town for me to Google? Somewhere good to move in colorado. Been checking Colorado out for a possible future juncture.
Salida area? Warmer rather than colder. I hear Salida is kind of mild.
Need tennis leagues though for Katrina...that really messes things up for me though...tennis in the mtns...ugh.
If Blodgett and Gunner say, Tipi tipi tipi it must be so!
TipiFest 06~~> Send me your email addy for a Paypal invoice to the greatest show on earth~~>[email protected]
Andy,
If I had the Dough, it would be Steamboat Springs! Very nice place. About 3hrs from Denver. Aspen Snowmass but you better be dating one the Rockafeller ladys, that place is off the charts.
Were doing a 2nd home right now in Leadville, its a low rent district, but @ 10,200 ' above the sea we got all kinds of stuff to do, All kinds of skiing in a 30 mile area, and the closest area is 8 miles away!
Sat 8/12 we got the hole dug, & were going to stake out the footers in the am.
Brother, I so wish I could Tipee, but once again not in the Stars this year. Will be raising a toast to all the festers on the Big Weekend!
Now you made me dig into my Steamboat file, was there this past April, got to Sk with Billy the Kidd. One of my Best Days on the Mountain in a Lifetime!
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Didn't I already tell you I hate you?
Wahhhhhhhhh, Rickyyyyyyyyy, can't we move to Colorado?
Where's the weather the nicest? IS Bolder too college kid oriented?
Bet KAtrina could find some good tennis within fifteen minutes of that place.
I spent a few days there(Bolder) when I hitched cross country many moons ago...remember a place we went near there called Flagstaff (not Arizona) where we went way up theis mtn to hear a concert in a sorta natural ampatheater?If Blodgett and Gunner say, Tipi tipi tipi it must be so!
TipiFest 06~~> Send me your email addy for a Paypal invoice to the greatest show on earth~~>[email protected]
You might be thinking of Red Rocks Ampitheater, just a short drive along the foothills, South of Boulder and West of Denver:http://lariatloop.org/VirtualTour/images/RR-Amphi.jpg
Boulder too yuppified. Most expensive real estate around
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Half hour to Denver is one reason.
This tennis issue makes it difficult...lol.
Summit County? I'll Google it.
If Blodgett and Gunner say, Tipi tipi tipi it must be so!
TipiFest 06~~> Send me your email addy for a Paypal invoice to the greatest show on earth~~>[email protected]
Once the Dust & Criminal charges settle from the 06 Fest let me know. If your out this way you guys can base out of Casa de Zakett, everbody heads to the Mts on the weekends & traffic can be an issue. About 75 miles from Denver to the start of the Mts. My lot is 120 miles away from the house.
Were 20 miles from Copper mt ( Summit County). $38k for a nice .25 ac. lot with 7k for water & sewer taps. If we were in Summit the lot alone would be $150-$175K & a lot more people which = more a$$wholes.
We dug the hole this weekend, took about 6hrs once the equipment was running. Get the footers formed next weekend. Were doing most of the work "In House".
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This ones for my Uncle Mike.....
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Took over a trim job for another carp who got canned for poor work. Was short on cherry "flat crown" so I made some to match. Ran crown, trimmed a window, put frames and panels together for the bar. It was a good day. High end builder, liked what he saw and wants me to bid his next project.
Hit the Mt. Lot for the weekend. Rain & Snow on Sat. ( August in the High Country!).
Was the Lone Ranger, rain most of the day Sat. brought the rain gear. Today we got it done!Footing is 33' by 66.5' at the widest part. Got it formed, an all steel cut & bent. Need to square it up & get the top @ grade. Thought we would get more done. If we have the foundation in & back-filled by mid-Oct will be a Happy Camper!
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Still working on the Footings, think were ready for inspection, (local building dept) its called in for Thurs. If the inspection passes, & we can get mud & a pump truck for Sat. we will go for the pour on the footings. The Aspen trees are starting to show the fall colors so we hope we can get the foundation in & backfilled before the frost sets in!
Tell me about the rebar holder-uppers. I've only used the wire "chairs"; how are those black cones in your pix different and/or better?
Forrest
The plastic rebar chairs, we don't do much concrete work, but they seem to work just fine. The job site I work on in the City, the guy that did the PT slab used the same chairs to hold up the cables in the slab. When they were done they left behind 300-400 of them, along with a bunch of other items, (rebar, bolts) few subs clean up after themselfs on most of the jobs I work on.
Wish I had a Barn to put the stuff I have thrown into dumpester in the past 10-15 yrs. Everyday good stuff gets pitched.
>>>>>>Wish I had a Barn to put the stuff I have thrown into dumpester in the past 10-15 yrs. Everyday good stuff gets pitched.Same here - I need acreage.
"Let's go to Memphis in the meantime, baby" - John Hiatt.
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I see you guys in Summit County
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i live in durango its booming and if your good, advertising is just a budget to get new hats. no licensing here, so if your good and expensive you'll fit right in. the cheap and bad get run out fast. 50% of my jobs are picking up where someone left off and fixing all thier mistakes. took over a trim job today in a giant log house. quoted $35 hr for my guy $50 for me, even though my guy is better than me. they jumped all over it.
Pretty cool.I checked it out on realtor.com. It "does" seem expensive but still up my alley for nice water front river property to build on for under 400000 with all utilities...hmmmmm. I'll look into it further. Is the weather the same as it is here in NY being it is in the s.w corner of Colorado? Seems close to the same I think.
Thanks dude
andy
LOLSame weather! that's rich bro!Better get your chapstick out.
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Durango ClimateDurango has an ideal four-season climate with mild temperatures year-round. Winters are mostly mild and sunny. Summers are warm but not too hot. The warm weather of summer is a dry heat, which makes it seem cooler. Anddddddd seems there's tons of "real" tennis for Katie. Who knows. We have two years to go if we move which is a "very" strong possibility.
Tween' JAn when we decieded to have TipiFest here and Aug (8 monthsish)...it FLEW BY! Geezzzz. Goes faster'n faster!!!
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Every year.
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we average 330 days of sunshine. within 40 miles is the desert and the ski course. everything from log to victorian here.
Its getting a little colder, don't have to worry about the Bugs anymore!
Big Day, Footings poured!!
Not much else to to for the rest of the day but.....
Fishing?
Keep On Rocking in the Free World!
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With summer almost over it was sure nice to have Help with the pour. We took the Help along to the local fishing hole, the little Guy sure throws a mean cast! The Big Guy, well.......
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i'll be ready to frame in two weaks. just give me a call.
You got a snow shovel?
every good frametr here does. where is that at?
Lake County!, Just outside Leadville. 10,200' above sea level. (AKA) Cloud City!
we got a bit on the la platas. just rain in town. ive framed in lake city in january. saint marys glacier in december, and pagosa every winter. if it aint freezing its too hot!
started another chimney job today, started bright and early
this morning ,bought all the block then had to wait & wait &
wait, s--t on this, loaded them by hand myself then drove to
the job and unloaded 32 flu block, #10 -8x8 flu liners, a
18 "X6" thimble.and a cleanout door,went back to the barn
loaded 4 sections of scaffolding and walk boards drove back
to the job erected that,48 miles one way.finally started
laying block around 11:30 layed 20 block ,installed cleanout
and cut out thimble hole, cleaned up trash plus a couple
of other subs mess's -I hate to trip over trash- went home filthy
as there is no water on this job or elec. to run my hoist ,had
to horse all the mat. up the scaff.got home played with younguns,
did some chores ,cleaned them up,&just finished reading to them --
wheww, full day
yes it was........
and would ya please hurry up with that truck....
we gots to make a coffee run...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
a yessssssssssssss...I hear fishing is sooooooooooo relaxing.........and then the competitive count comes into play! LOL!DUM SPIRO SPERO: "While I breathe I hope"
You bet correctly.A woman called me tearfully explaining that her eighty-something year old friend had a 13-year old horse that was gravely ill and needed to be put down right away and could I please bury it.I said I'd be right there. When I got there, the horse was still fully cogent and I am quite sure understood the situation. They asked me how much I was going to charge.I said, "Nothing as long as you don't cry, because if you start, then I will, too, and it makes it really hard to run this machine.So that got them laughing at least.And a big horse he was. Big enough that I should have brought a bigger machine.The sight of a dead horse being lowered into a hole even with a properly sized machine is gruesome.So I dug a big hole with a ramp, and laid the sides back so there was good light.One of the younger women led the horse out of the barn and across the yard toward the hole.He took his time walking across the yard, stopping to nibble a little grass, looking right into the eyes of every one of the dozen or so women as he passed them. He slowed a little as he approached the ramp, paused at the top, and then calmly walked to the bottom of the hole.Everybody got to say goodbye to him, the vet gave him the shot, and he hit the ground. I covered him up with no visually disturbing efforts. (If you think horses are big when they are alive, try burying one. The limbs can be uncooperative.)So then they still wanted to pay me. I told them that as far as I knew that would be illegal. They laughed again. Then we all got choked up and teary. H#ll, I cried about the horse and laughed about these wonderful women all the way back out to the main road.I hope I'm half the man that horse was when it's my time.
I knew I wasn't the only one here willing to help someone in need.
You can't get rich on it, but the feeling when you help someone is worth more than any money you could get.
Ditto what Glen said. Very kind of you.
You're a good man, you've got my respect.zak
"so it goes"
EXCELLENT!!!!!Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
No way. I'd rather watch on TV.
I was stuck in the traffic on my way home tonight. I had to pass through town, and the traffic added about 30 minutes. Lots of boats on all 3 rivers.In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.
Finally got moving on the plumbing of the upstairs bathrooms that had been setting there a while. kicking myself because this all should have been done already.
I've been working with one helper for a while. He's been getting more and more undependable, and frankly there were many days when he didn't show up, I found something more fun to do than work. Anyway, he didn't get out of bed this morning, but I had another guy come over. Guy #2 has less true skill, more energy. I spent parts of the day training, which I didn't really mind. the good part about it was that if he was working, I was nearby working too.
He's coming back tomorrow. I guess that means I'll be working at least two days this week.
Don K.
I have never been able to grasp the concept of just not showing up for work. How the heck can you do that? And then show up the next day like nothings wrong.
Tipi fest 06. Be there Vato.
Gunner-
It's not me either. I'm one of those guys that feels guilty if I even use the "sick" excuse, and then I don't want to leave the house. (G).
I'm in the minority. So many people do it, it's ridiculous.
To make this one even better - he doesn't drive so I drove to his house to pick him up and he was still in bed. He didn't even call to apologize, which irks me more. He did call last night and said pick him up at 7:30, no ifs ands or buts. (There is an outside chance he's really sick. He had a form of cancer years ago, doesn't go for medical care any more and abuses his body pretty badly. Probably won't know it unless he winds up in the hospital down the road, then I'll feel guilty about that!)
Don K.
I wouldn't feel guilty. He knos what he's got to do. If he can't do that then. Later.
Your too nice. Can I come and work for you?
Tipi fest 06. The island is going down Ese.
"Your too nice."
Funny you say that. I've had three of my secretaries say the same thing to me. On the other hand, if that's what's going on my tombstone, it isn't a bad thing. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I'm doing this for the fun of it.
The thought of working together with some of the people at BT was interesting before I went to Laurel, and it's still interesting. I enjoy people. I enjoy working with people - "working with" being the operative term. I get real tired of the bs that goes along with having people work for you. From the time we did spend together and the posts that I have seen of yours, I would love to work together. I'll tell you what - the next bank I buy - you are in!(G)
Don K.
EJG Homes Renovations - New Construction - Rentals
Yea I think we'd get along pretty good. Your pretty smooth to talk too that says alot about a person. If you do buy that bank let me hire the tellers. I have a "dream list."
And we'll need a samich machine.
Tipi fest 06. The island is gonna bounce, Ese.
Took a pic of the dogrun roof with skylte panel, nice digs for dogs aye:
I got a lead on an interesting job today- 2 weeks teaching trail building around Lake Baikal, in Siberia. This september/october. Average temperature is supposed to be around freezing that time of year, so it shouldn't be too far out of my comfort range, and I think I'd jump at a chance to travel that far and get paid for it. I'll post some pictures if it happens.
And then there's the everyday job I just got wednesday, which will be remodeling houses, real modern sort of stuff. I find that style interesting, although it's not what I'm most drawn to. I'm happy working on stuff that has thought gone in to it, even when the conclusions are not the same as what I would reach.
The one bummer is that it's a nasty commute, probably more than an hour each way to go 12 miles or so. We'll see how I hold up to that. Also, we'll see what my boss thinks of me taking two weeks off to go to siberia about a month and a half after I start work.
Change seems to come quick.zak
"so it goes"
--"interesting job today- 2 weeks teaching trail building around Lake Baikal, in Siberia."That sounds awesome!I was a trial crew supervisor for the USDA Forest Service in the Kootenai N.F. in Montana, between Glacier N.P. and the Idaho panhandle. I had a blast. I was paid to do "trails inventory"--hiked the entire trail system to note maintanance requirements (for two weeks before the crew started for the season). Got to build trails in Montana, Idaho, and Colorado.Some of my best memories...I've seen the trail bridges you have posted--very cool. You have some great skills for the job.We just felled large trees, chainsawed the tops flat...and lag bolted post and pole rails on...done.Hope the boss will roll with it.
Hey, that sounds great Basswood- it's good to hear about other trail junkies like myself. I'm transitioning into the housework, I think it will be more of a lifetime job, but I feel a mighty draw for trailwork every summer.
I know some people doing trails in the bitterroot valley of Montana, but none over near glacier, although that's some of my favorite country. My neck of the woods was the North Cascades. I did pure trailwork and timber bridges for about 5 years before doing the suspension bridge thing, along with some trailbuilding with excavators.
I loved my days of pulling a misery whip, then taking down camp and hiking 15 miles to the next spot after work. I earned my supper in those days.
I'm excited about the Lake Baikal thing, though I just heard about it this afternoon, and I should wait for more solid info.zak
"so it goes"
I finally got away from seasonal forestry jobs after about a decade floating around the Rockies. Great times, but I grew weary of being a rolling stone. Been in one place for six years now and I like it.be packin' a Punjar. ; )
Had to bring up the bad punjar memories, didn't ya.
Actually, I spent more time with an 90 lb air drill. Also heavy as he11, but they sure do fly through the rock.zak
"so it goes"
Gottcha!I thought with your experience--if I dropped "Punjar" into the conversation--you might wince. ; > )Did some work turning a huge boulder into a staircase, on a trial in Idaho. Punjar Punishment! I'm not a big dude (5'10" 160#), so that thing just clobbered me.One of the "Tools Designed by the Antichrist".
Man, that just sounds like the job of a lifetime - I'd do that for free just for the experience.
Hope to he!! it works out for you!
Forrest
I hear you Don. It's no wonder there are so many illegals on the Island. I wonder when we will outsource are building overseas too.
Anyways I recoated my deck today and finished a trellis I had started Sat. Went for a swim in the bay this morning now back in the city where it is hot and muggy.
You're not supposed to get that involved in the job.
If having a low wage work force was good for a country's economy then why hasn't Mexico built a fence?
Will do Gunner - I will snap some more shots (hopefully today) of the rough pieces - then shots of it installed once that happens in a couple of weeks.Justin Fink - FHB Editorial
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Thanks It looks like it's gonna be pretty classy.
Tipi fest 06. I'm Packing.
my arms are tired...
need massage....
Kate figured out that I got a hit 2.7 casts.... fish in every 3.1 cast... (don't fish with a statistian / number cruncher)...
couldn't escape the attention of the Kokanee nor the Bull Trout.... they're tough on a 5WT... at least 2 relines a day..
more Cutthroats than you can imagine...
scaled down on the tackle and ran into the brusiers.. scaled up and found the regulars... go figure...
BTW... didn't miss a thing as near as I can tell... be back that way in about 2 weeks or so... Fishing Idaho next week...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Is Kate going to JSM in Seattle in two weeks?
Nope... Tuson...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
What did you do? Join the Marines.
I like big butts and I can not lie.
I feel like it this morning. Humping the sand and gravel up that hill by the wheelbarrow load was for a fancy dog run we built last week. It is all but inaccessible, tucked in behind a 3 car garage, on a steep hill, with a koi pond and waterfall as obstacles.We put sand down as a base, added weed barrier, then gravel. I'll post a pic later this week.
You know, there's such a thing as a gas-powered wheelbarrow.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
now you tell 'em!!!I added a slew of rotted remains from what were once floor joists to the huge burnpile. Nice to work in a country setting.
You can even leave your tools out overnight and not bother to lock your doors.
Beware. RFID is coming.
I'm Amish.
I'd like to see your wood-powered computer setup sometime.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
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ROAR!
You look good in blue.
It brings out the green in my eyes.
I like big butts and I can not lie.
My sister in law finished a stained glass transom window, a wedding/christmas present. I put it in last night, and have been enjoying it all day. It'll be even better in the winter, when the sun is low enough to come through it.
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"so it goes"
That is a fine window. Transoms are cool.I worked on this little deck today. It is really entry stairs, with just a 25" total rise.Rather than stringers for the 3 steps, I built and stacked 15 small frames around the landing. The decking is 5/4 x 6 UltraDeck Rustic. I'll go back to finish it up next Wednesday.The birdseye view pic is taken from the roof of the dog run, and shows the steepness of the site in the bluffs above the Mississippi.
4 hours huddle with attorney; three and half hours jury selection. Only cost 2 or 3 grand, but at least I'm the plaintiff.
Forrest
I argued with bobl.......
Nice work.....
Are you concerned about the wood around the sink?
I'm not too worried about the wood around the sink. It looks as good as day one right now, 4 or 5 months on. If it goes down the tubes, I'll rip it out and build a new one, probably out of ipe or teak, with no finish. If it's good enough for a boat deck, it should be good enough for a kitchen sink surround.
My last resort would be to have somone build one out of stainless. I've got a friend who could do it fairly cheap. I don't think it'll come to that, and I prefer the look of wood.zak
"so it goes"
i'm with you as I prefer wood, also.....You're right, it's good enough for a boat, it's good enough for a sink......Really looks nice....
Pulled a lounge day today. Actually a recuperating day.
Put 16 hours on an old roof tearoff, ply then ice&water. Wanting to beat the rain that was to come after midnight I went into rocket mode because the potential for disaster was so great.
Neighbor's must have wondered what that kook was doing with floods set out in the middle of the night.
I can tell I'm getting older. It hurts even when I ain't laughing.
be a tennis elbow and shuffle when you walk.
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. A bird sings because it has a song.
Saturday; 4PM.
Went to pick up a payment check for a completed siding job and look at other work, same HO, to bid. Some unknown to me man came up when I arrived, slammed down my proposal on the table, and said "that's a lot of money". I said "You think so?", He said yeah and I said "so you're not going to pay me then?"
It was confrontational, uncomfortable and why should I bid on anything else for these people (he is not the customer and had his nose where it should not have been and I don't even know who he is). I believe he has small man syndrome.
BTW, the completed siding job was perfect, and I did get paid.
They want me to bid on patching a set of outside stairs that need replacement. Should I "put my name on them" by patching them? The house will be for sale next year some time, I believe. Can I qualify the work with verbage on my proposal?
WTF, made my day.
http://grungefm.com
"Can I qualify the work with verbage on my proposal?"I sometimes do work like this, in particular for a slumlord who always calls me for fix-up work. I don't put a sign out and make sure the price pays for the trouble. I know the people froma referral, I don't work for landlords around here as a rule. If I don't have time, or don't need the money, it gets the back burner unless its an emergency.I'd ask homeowner why the mystery man came on like that and make clear that the agreement and negotiations are between you and them only.And if anyone cares, I sanded and taped sheetrock today, which I hate to do but I took the job cause I wanted some cash because I'm strapped from a frame to finish that hasn't gone as planned.
"And if anyone cares, I sanded and taped sheetrock today, which I hate to do but I took the job cause I wanted some cash because I'm strapped from a frame to finish that hasn't gone as planned."
I care. S/R finish work, to me, is an art. Just so happens my particular "art" in this business is tile work. At times I attempt S/R finish work, but nothing too big. I have a 3-5 sheet self imposed limit.
Thank you for your input. I really appreciate the sounding board. It's everyones experience here that makes us all better at what we do.
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I agree girlbuilder.
Sheetrock work is one of the most thankless jobs in construction.
Seems few people appreciate the amount of labor that can go into drywall finish to get a passable job.
be down with drywall
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. A bird sings because it has a song.
around here at least it seems to few "drywall contractors" realize everything that should go into a good finish job.
Stripped forms, Drove Home!
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Just added up where am at $ wise on the footing. 242' of 16"x 10" footing with 2 #4 rebars in the footing & #4 rebars every 24" vertical. Price does not include my labor or gas to & from. I also had to buy the 2x10 to form with ($400.) and $225 in steel stakes(because the ground is so dam rocky!!)
11yds of concrete & a pump truck were used. We came in at a little over $3,700 or about $15.30 a foot. Concrete was $118.20 a yd. (small up charge $60) for Sat. delivery.
sounds like there's enough left over to ALL of us out fer breakfast...
HEY EVERYBODY!!!!!
mini breakfast fest at G's...
come one .... come all....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
ya, I'll take one of those huge western omlettes with a tanker of java.
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. A bird sings because it has a song.
What no Bagels?
Not out west.
be living in a dream
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. A bird sings because it has a song.
Thinking T & A at Earl's would be better!
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah....
be drooling and slobering.....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
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You get to wake up every day and look at those mountains ,That's great!
Thanks,
But just like everything else in life it comes with a price!
Fought the weather all weekend, Got the water / sewer stub out of the crawl space along with a rough back-fill. Now we know how short we are on fill.
Thought we would have the first floor deck framed, (1170 sq.ft.). The weather slowed us down & having to set the 800+lb beam, with the back-hoe took a little effort.
My two sons & myself still were able to be proud of what we got done this weekend....
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Spent the day (and yesterday, and some of tomorrow) cutting a small timberframe addition. It's my first time at this, and I was turned loose with about no guidance, but I'm doing ok. I enjoy the work, cutting mortises and tenons, and morticed miters. The wood is very nice doug fir 6x6s. Posts are about 18 feet long, and there are only 4 of them. Only the top beam is getting joinery, the lower one is just cut up pieces, held in place by a continuous ledger in the back, and timber screws pocket screwed in (believe it or not, this is getting painted).
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I learned that the hollow chisel mortiser I used a couple times (I cut half by hand, half by this machine) is not available in the U.S. Too bad, it's a nice little machine.
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zak
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John Ruskin
"so it goes"
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jeesus...nice shop
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know" Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yeah, it is. but it gets big puddles on the floor when it rains, there aren't nearly enough electrical outlets, and there are lots of holes in the sheet-metal walls.
But hey, it works fine for me.zak
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John Ruskin
"so it goes"
well you gotta keep it real right?"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know" Ralph Waldo Emerson
Noticed some blood in that second picture - just means you're working hard!
Forrest
Nice work, Zak. I also enjoy cutting the mortises and tenons in, but all my stuff has been in barns where they don't care as much as I do about the artistry. So I make the new match the old, and get a kick out of thoes joints going together mmmmmm..... just right!Today I finished up a little project for a good client, wish I'd charged a lot more. Sounds simple, just trim out the outside of 2 basement windows and a french door? Put up 1x the other day, looked pretty good considering that 1) the door opening in the cast foundation was wrong, so they saw-cut the side jambs and chiseled out the head, 2) the concrete around the openings (except the saw-cut) was rough as a cob, 3) the framers didn't bother to center the units in the ROs, 4)the windows weren't parallel with the wall, they were cocked about 1/2", and 5) she decided she wanted 2 1/4" casing over top of the 1x.
In addition, there's really no way to flash the trim. Scribing to that crappy concrete was a nightmare. Some of the wood had to be cut away just to fit the piece in, which left some pretty big gaps at the edges.
I've trimmed out entire houses and used less caulk than I did today.
I think we'll need to discuss this when she gets back in town!
Sent out 2 invoices, collected another, should finish pricing out 2 more bids by Sunday, picking up the replacement windows for my own house this afternoon or tomorrow.
Thinkin' about takin' Monday off!
Clearances not yet thru at Pearl Harbor this morning, sat 3 hours this AM waiting for paperwork, not till late today now told.
Guess will just have to walk on the beach and take in the scenery till later this afternoon. (10 AM here ).
Some jobs are awful tough.
Art,
Hope you missed the Shake rattle & roll of the Quake!
We got to battle the Elements, Rain, Snow, Cold & what ever else Mother Nature threw at us this weekend!
Got the first floor on & covered, heres one of my sons nailing down some A-35s before we cover with OSB....
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Shot of the end of the Day, just before we covered with EDM & 15 gals of water seal!
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I worked today on a friend of a friend's spec house from hell (with apologies to boss hog) It's a gorgeous house, lots of japanese detailing (she's an expert timber joiner), and an amazing view of the bay area. The house is on an extremely steep lot, so it's a five story house, with garage on top. They would have listed it for about 3 million a while back when the market here was hot, now it'll be more like 2 million. Still sounds like an obscene amount of money.
Anyway, I just worked on some cedar siding and redwood water tables. I didn't get many pictures today, but I took a couple of the view from the house.zak
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John Ruskin
"so it goes"
Went to the Lot, cleared the Snow, moved & covered material. Will try & get some Backfill for the garage, other then that were going to wait for Springtime!
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Went up for the weekend, more back fill ( an item we should have added more to the budget!) . Got the garage area backfilled & compacted. Compaction was weak so were goig to add rebar in the floor.
Drilled for rebar, but think will wait to spring to pour.
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Hung some drywall in a kitchen and bathroom as part of the remodel of a Four-square.Restrung sashes on two double-hung windows. It took about 50' of sash cord and two hours to tune up the windows. Top sashes were painted shut as usual. When we were finished there were bits of frayed rope with stubborn old knots cut loose from the sash weights strewn about the floor. My apprentice mentioned that we were finished...I looked at the mess on the floor and said, "frayed knot." ; )
They would disagree with you over at Threads...
hah good one.What kind of rope did you use? Nylon? Have you thought about using something more durable like metal inside a plastic sheath? I saw some at HD and I thought about using it but didn't buy that. I did buy a really thin metal rope with no plastic and tried that out but I found it slipped off the pulley wheel and had a kind of sawing action on the pulley instead of friction and causing the pulley wheel to move.I didn't even bother fixing the top window in the double hung windows I repaired it was 100% better just being able to open the bottom set of windows. Did you spray foam inside the counterweight cavity or use any kind of insulation technique there?MG
I have done a few too many DH windows and I find that the coppe sash chain ( or galvy, if no copper is available) is the longterm ticket, UNLESS, it is a Historical Restoration, where the rope is required to meet specs. Then it is cotton braid with a poly core.
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So I won't get bored thanksgiving week, I've added a small project on to my normal job. The deal is, we're doing a basement/first floor addition and remodel. And the existing first floor bathroom, which is staying, has a patched together, leaking tub surround, which will cause very expensive damage once there is a nice new library underneath it. It was one of those tile right over greenboard jobs, with no moisture barrier anywhere. At least they didn't use mastic.
To complicate issues, the tub is a clawfoot, built into a surround. That means the corners are rounded, and there is no tile lip. The homeowners (an architect and her husband) were adamant that the clawfoot stay- it's comfortable and an unusual size.
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My proposal was to make a sort of water table trim, with radiused corner pieces, that would overhang the tub a little bit, with a drip-edge kerfed in. I made that out of azek, and painted it. I've done that and the demo so far.
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The trim will be set in silicone on top of the tub, and glued to solid blocking in the walls. Then a 1/2" x 1/2" strip of azek will be glued to the top of it. 1/2" z flashing will go over that strip, and my moisture barrier (15 or 30 # felt) will go over that. Then hardibacker. I told them it's still a patch job, but now it will be a good one.
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I've got until next sunday to do this (and my normal workdays on monday, tuesday, and wednesday). I'll post a few more pics as it goes along.
zak
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John Ruskin
"so it goes"
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Zak,Creative solution...and nice Sketchup graphics.Today and yesterday I assembled a set of cabinets from a cabinet component company. There are 14 units in this order (not all are pictured) but if ordered from a typical cabinet company it would have be 21 cabinets.The painter will clear coat the faceframes tomorrow, then they will get hardware.
Anybody else working around here? We had a good winter on the slopes, and were back to work on the weekends. Hope to be dried in around the 4th of July.
Is it just me ? or has the place changed? Think somebody at Taunton Ct. World HQ needs to buy a humidifer, this place sure is dry!
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Is this your own place? I think I've seen you mention working on a place of your own, not sure?
Is it just me ? or has the place changed?
Yes it has
Doug
Doug,
I guess you left Texas? If you need some Tamales, let us know!
About a year ago, we bought the lot. 120 miles from Castle Rock. Got the foundation & 1st floor deck in late last fall. (took longer then we thought to get permits) Covered it up for the winter & have been hitting every weekend since late march.
During the week days were getting our butt kicked with 10 units about 3000 sq.ft. each, with lots of details & right in the Heart of the City!
The weekends are nice, my sons ( who our become men have been helping on the Mt.House & this could be the last of time well spent with them, as the time for leaving the nest will be soon).
Hope Life is going as Good for you as it is for us!
Heres a few of the paying job in the city.....
G
I guess you left Texas? If you need some Tamales, let us know!
Yea, had enough of the place, or maybe they had enough of me but either way I'm back in Iowa where I belong. Back since last September and back to work at the same place as before TX.
And yes on the Tamales! That and the abundance of good looking women are the two things that I will miss most about TX. I never thought much about Texmex food before going down to TX and now that I'm back I really miss it. The stuff they call Texmex here aint worth feeding to the dogs.
Man I left the state and never did get over to Crawford to see the sight of our great leader! Thats sarcasm I hope you know
The Mexicans that make it way up here must loose their ability to cook cause I cant find a good source.
Next time I'm out in CO you'll have to give me the 50 cent tour of the place, or maybe I'll just find Marty and we'll ramsack the place durring the week!
Nice to have all the work you can stand but man a guys gotta have some time to enjoy it too. I'm sure its a joy to get to work with your sons, by the time there old enough to realize that ma and pa aint the big pain in their azz they once thought they up and move out on ya, whats up with that.
Is this going to be your retirement home or just a weekend getaway place? Looks to big for a weekend cabin sorta thing.
Doug
I must have a sick mind, I enjoy getting out of the city on the weekends & pounding the nails.
Leadville to small of a town to spend the rest of my time. I always wanted a Mt. House & one at the beach. In a year or so, will be 1/2 way there.
Will more the likely unload it in two years or so, need to build something with the materials that always seem to get pitched in the 30 yarder. We have had some great savings on the frame pack by recycling the stuff that the piece works pitch.
Don't think will get much fishing in this year as we would like to, but this next ski season we should have a nice place to crash & do some interior work in the evenings.
Will keep posting photos, as we move foward, it going to be nice once were dried in with doors, windows, roofing & siding. If all goes well maybe late July.
Got some tail this weekend!
The backside is looking better then the front side (ain't that always the case?).
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Got some tail this weekend!
Thats always a good thing!
It's looking good, do I see hardie laying there on the ground? Shingles going on as well, hell you'll be done by the end of summer - I'd say the first snow fall but I dont know the elevation, that first snow could be in a month.
Doug
Got a few days in, pre holiday. Have to work Thurs. & Fri. then will hit it again!
The game plan is to get the roof dried in, doors & windows on, flat work in the garage & then hope to start the siding, (Hardi) also would like to do some stucco & phoney Stone on the Hollywood sides.
Glad I got my two sons helping, if all goes well 2-3 more weekends we might just be tight from the Rain.
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run out of flashing???Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I think the picture is upsidedown, he got the three important sides!
Hell, how many of those houses in CO Springs that Pulte was building do you think had any flashing!
G, how many sq. ft. is that house going to have? Looks good sized from here.
Doug
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THAT'S IT...
They're upside down...
and for Pulte and the rest...
none...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Brought up 1" flashing, need 1 1/2" above the windows.
That nice Hitachi framing gun, She took a ride on the Wild side! It was up two stories by it self & the fitting at the gun broke in 1/2, went down 2 stories plus the roof, of course it had to bounce off the garage stem wall as it meet the ground! Long story longer... split the outside case open, bent the $h*t out of the rail where the nails go in! Been hand driving since!
" that first snow could be in a month."That first snow could be tomorrow at that elevation!
'course, it is hard to say if it would be first snow of the next winter or last snow of the previous
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or last night and for the last 30 some nights...
believe tonight too...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Just started building a house late this aternoon and I already have it dried in! It is for die fledermaus. Measures 18" w x 48" t x 6" deep. This is a 5 slot model.I have a problem with bats in the attic. The bat houses are supposed to give the critters a good alternative to my attic as I attempt to seal things up.This project is also using up more of the scrap piled up around here. This house is oak, cherry, pine, birch, MDO, etc.
I have a problem with bats in my attic as well, been thinking of building some bat houses, where'd you get the details/specs on that house? I need something like that.
I don't want to entirely get rid of the bats, they eat a lot of mosquitos and they haven't thinned down the heard enough yet.
Doug
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no attic but the one's in my belfry sure can be distracting...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
an alternate bat house can be made out of a piece of old fashioned metal corrugated roofing about 24" long.
Wrap it around a tree and tie it on .
Bats will crawl up into the dark openings ."Poor is not the person who has too little, but the person who craves more."...Seneca
Doug,The design I settled on is a hybrid based on some of the research of the bat conservation groups. I've read that bigger and taller is better. 4' tall simply allowed me to use a bunch of ply scraps with the 4' length already cut. I just ripped the scraps down to 18". The back ply layer is 53" providing a landing area at the bottom.14" is a recommended minimum width for the houses. The depth of the houses depends on how many layers of slots you go with (3 is the min. and 7 is a common upper limit)--I went with 5 layers. The slots should be from 3/4-1" of space between the "fins". Since some bats prefer thinner or thicker slots, warped plywood is perfect. Weathered, rough plywood is good too (I just happened to have a pile of weathered and warped stuff around). using a combination of 1x1 spacers of 3/4" and some rough sawn stock that is a full 1" would be good too.The 5-layer house I constructed must weigh 100 pounds...installing it up on my gable will be fun. Still have to paint the bat house first (black or brown are suggested).I'll post how well this bat house is recieved by the bats. Building one just takes a couple hours and for me it just used scrap that is piled too high around here already.BW
One more weekend, then we hope to have all the exterior framing, along with the last of the windows installed. 90% dried in right in now, had a good down pour Sunday, it was nice to be in a Dry Frame for a change!
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Thanks for the tip on the bat houses. What will they do come winter though? do they fly south, thinking that they dont but I'm not sure. I cant believe that they would be OK out in one of those houses.
Doug
They migrate. I hope to get the male bats who explore for new roosts to check out this new crib this season...the ladies with young in my attic may stop in, but they won't move out of my attic 'til fall. Here the bats arrive in May and leave in Sept.I plan to build two more bat houses this summer and seal up the attic this fall.
I figured they migrated - down in Austin, TX there is a famous bridge, South Congress Bridge, go down there at sundown and watch a million of those little buggers come out from underneath it, cool site if your ever down that way.
I'll have to do the same, build the houses and batproof the house come this fall.
Lady next door is so panicky over the bats that she had a "bat expert" come and bat proof her house. She's mad at me cause I wont do the same thing and seeing as how my house is next door she thinks if I don't get rid of them she cant! I think the bat expert told her this crap so as to drum up more business, probably not a lot of work for bat experts you know.
Anyhow thanks
Doug
Tell the neighbor lady that what has really happened is that her bats have now moved into your attic. Ask her to take them back. ;o)
Ask her to take them back
Maybe I'll just charge her rent on her bats!
Doug
Looking good. The place has changed. We are all dieting and running every day. A lot less drinking and carousing.
I'm Huge in Japan!
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Its almost like the place has been taken over by the Church of Scientology?
>>Anyone else working around here?<<
I am trying not to, but it's not going down that way. LOL
Heres some of pictures at a barn project I am doing now.
This is me gang cutting 2x10's with my new head cutter. THe wife suprised me with it for my birthday.
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Those 2x10s were cut for sistering the existing ones that were over spanned. They worked with the original steel roof, but now with asphalt shingles they wouldn't.
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And a picture of a kid with a new toy. Man is that saw cool.
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Tighten up that there chain, boy. Yer a-gunna trip over it.Seriously, the chain is way too loose.=0)
Fight fire with water.
Chain was tight before I started cutting. Loosened up alot through that yellow pine.
A few causes for that.The chain is not getting enough oil.The chain is not sharp enough.You are forcing the cut instead of letting the chain do it's work normally.The bar is not tight enough.
Fight fire with water.
Brand new saw and chain, I cut a few small branches with it the day before to try it out.
I will check the bar itself to make sure it's tight. I did switch over from a 24" bar to a 16" when I got the saw home.
I got the saw brand new from a local saw dealer and he said he would get it ready to go for me. I didn't check any of the fluids before I used it. Afterwards I checked and it had about a capful of gas left and about as much bar oil. He only put enough in to prime the saw.
So it might be a combination of a few small things.
Thanks Luka.
If your blade did not slip, then your chain stretched.I've never seen a commercially sharpened blade that was as good as you can do yourself, with a file in hand.~~~Sounds like the saw is dispensing the oil right. When you fill the gas, you should have to fill the oil at the same time.Get the saw running, and hold it as if you are cutting, but with the nose of the bar down near a light surface. Watch how much oil is slung onto that surface.I cut my bar and chain oil about half and half with straight 30 weight. IMO the mix gives a better compromise between sticking to the chain, and flowing easily enough that plenty of oil is on the chain at all times. All new oil. IMO the 'savings' people think they are getting by using used oil, is far outweighed by the potential damage and wear and tear on the saw, the chain and the bar.~~~When you tighten the chain...Pull down on the chain on the bottom of the bar. You should be able to fit the edge of a penny between the shoulder of the chain, and the bar. No more, no less.~~~Once you have the chain correct... Holding the saw, put the nose of the bar on something like a log. Press the saw in such a way as to push the nose of the bar upward. Now tighten the bolts that hold the bar.You are welcome.
Fight fire with water.
Once again thanks. I have run chainsaws before but they were someone elses that knew what they were doing. Now that I have mine I am a little lost on how it should be setup right.
I read the manual and it said nothing about proper chain tension. So those tips were needed.
I am using Husky brand oils, they guy I bought it from said they were having issues with people using Stihl oil. Said that the Husky motor spins at higher rpms and their oil was causing motors to blow. So I bought what was reccomended.
The chain is a little loose but equally as urgent; chain saw work requires gloves and glasses at minimum!
Nice set up tell the missus we approve!
Have a good day
Cliffy
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The way that saw is mounted by cutting with the top of the bar all the chips and dust are thrown down and not into your face.
Have you ever had a chain break? I have and it is not a pretty sight literally and figurativelly. Don't you guys have occupational health and safety act in the land of Bush. I'm trying not to sound offensive but a chain saw deserves alot of respect. In Ontario when I was a government employee Chain saw usage required chain saw pants or chaps, face protection, hearing protection, and work gloves with kevlar.
Have a good day
Cliffy
You bring up some good points. I'll have look into what OSHA requires for that animal. I hadn't thought about it until now.
As for breaking a chain, no I haven't and can't imagine it would be pretty.
I've been building 3 bookcases and 3 cabinets for a home office. I ripped down 8 sheets of ply and a pile of oak 1x into box and faceframe parts yesterday. Today, I plowed dados for the bookcases and assembled them.Next I put in the bases, scribe in the top, and put the bookcases on the top...then faceframes scribed in and installed...I hope to finish tomorrow.
Great idea. Especially if you live where the inspectors prowl, and yu Mama likes yur purty face!
Have a good day
Cliffy
Thats a NICE set up!
The DW, did good!
Nice!
It is my personal opinion that as a matter of course, every man must own a chainsaw. There is nothing more satisfying, tool wise, to me than ripping thru logs with the saw. I too took a little learning to it; when you use another's saw you don't really have to know how to maintain it.
All good advice from the ol' guard. Without a doubt, chainsaw is really dangerous... It's one of those not 'if' but 'when' type of tools. Keep the chain so tight you can just barely roll it over the bar with your bare hand and you're good to go. If you can pull it out beyond the bar, look out. I had a chain fling off over my right ear once.
I have a husky too. Was using it last weekend to saw up a huge oak tree with trunk sections that stopped the truck in 4x4 low, full bed of wood, with chain... With info from this site I figured out what it would take to get it milled and dried. Hope to have some good material out of it.
Cheers,
Pat
I used it again yesterday, with the chain alot tighter per Luka's instructions.
This time it wasn't the chain that was dangerous, it was me on top of an extension ladder using it to top a dead oak in my brothers yard. We had the a 100' garden hose tied to the tree and to his lawn tractor. Looked like a bunch of idiots. And the whole subdivision decided it would be fun to watch.
No injuries or casualties I am happy to report.
Matt
Did you catch the storey somebody here told about a scene like that this past year?Ithink it may have been Boss Hog's father.He needed to cut a limb that was up there about 40' so he took his forty foot extension ladder that runs out 36' and then got the bucket loader set in place to put the feet of the ladder in the bucket for that extra height. Climbed the ladder with the saw and whacked the end of the offending limb off. What he had failed to plan for was that when the end of the limb came off, the stub his ladder was leaning to was not weighted down wioth a couple hundred pounds of green wood anymore, so it lifted up a foot higher in the air, just that much higher than the top of the ladder.He had enough of whatever to quickly reach the branch and steady the ladder. I'm thinking the saw must have been dropped. Then he had to wait and holler for quite a while until his wife heard and came out to lift the bucket on the loader tractor before he could let go of the limb and climb down.
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It was not a well thought out plan at all. My brother (factory worker) came up with it and I laughed at him. I tried telling him to lay the whole thing down at once but he wouldn't go with it. I should have walked.
He was worried about his neighbors lawn, he lives in a subdivision. So I went with his wishes that were against mine. I cut about 3/4 of the way through and got off the ladder, then let the tractor pull the top off. Good thing I did because the 1/4 that I left snapped off below the top of the ladder and bent the sh!t out of it. Almost taking the ladder down with it.
It wasn't that big of a tree, 18" at the base and maybe 8" where I made my inscission almost 24' up. Never again though, even if it is my brother. Unless they want to lay it all down at once which I will gladly do.
I did get whacked by a piece of the tree when I was pushing the bottom half down. I'm not sure what it was but it put a lump on my skull quick.
I know better than to do this type of thing too, I watched my dad nearly remove his leg from the knee down doing this same stunt as a kid.
Matt
stilletto,
I had a piece of property that had 4 very old (36" diam.)and large locusts on it.
These had to be removed to erect a new building. The lot was abutting to a RR track that got used twice daily as the train went to and from the local lumber mill, trees lined the property line with the RR. I had fallen a lot of trees myself but decided to play it safe and hired a local timber faller to deal with these.It was imperative we not block the tracks with the trees if anything fell the wrong way and I didn't trust my skill level to handle the job. Very small logging town , maybe 1200 people, so dropping the trees became a neighbor hood event, all the old loggers standing around offering advice etc etc. Well the Train comes though at 5 PM sharp everyday , my faller shows up late at 3:30 and gets started . He manages to drop all 4 trees across the tracks in the next hour. I hired everybody in sight who could run a chainsaw to clear those track off! Quite the show . Those old boys would not let me live that one down."Poor is not the person who has too little, but the person who craves more."...Seneca
"Looked like a bunch of idiots. And the whole subdivision decided it would be fun to watch."
Stuff like that's where the 10,000$ prizewinners on "Funniest home videos" shows get all their best material.
After notching and starting the cut to drop a big oak too near my dad's garage, it started leaning away from the notch and to the garage anyway... We got a rope high enough in it to use the come-a-long across the yard to pull it over and drop it away from the building. Don't think the garden hose would have done it for that one!
I have a friend that has tree gaffs, they strap onto your legs and have spikes that you climb the tree with along with a strap around your waist. But he was sleeping and I couldn't get them from him.
I would have loved to use them instead of a HO grade aluminum extension ladder. I think I'll look for a set of them, not that I would use them alot but they would be handy.
Matt
I have a pair of "spikes" for tree and pole climbing I'll sell you. I used to be an arborist, but have not used the spurs in the last 15 years.
Got any pictures? I would really like a set.
Matt
These are Klein spurs...some are listed now on ebay for 159.00 with the smaller pole climbing spikes (plus $20 shipping). Mine are for trees, but the spikes can be changed/replaced. The stuff on ebay claims to retail for $100 more than their "buy now" price.I checked some other sites and it looks like mine sell for $260 new. Mine are almost like new. They have climbed a couple dozen trees and have been well cared for. How about half-price ($130). If you are up for spending that much?
Email me your address so I can send you some money.
Matt
Still at it, even if it's only 2 days out of the week. Down to the last 10 squares of shingles, all of the soffit on, few more feet of fasica left.
90 more days & it will be cold & snow!
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Looks good G. Keep at it, the snow can sneak up on ya! Hope you have been able to get some fishing in. Tim
Thanks Tim,
Yet to get my Worm wet this year! Just to much stuff happening this year. Maybe late fall will drop the line. If your up in the area stop by, will put you to work for a few hrs, then give you directions to the local Honey Holes.
Are the spurs still available?
I kind of forgot about them until today when I could have used them.
I still have your address from your email, you still want $130? Does that include the shipping? If not let me know the difference.
Matt
I still have them...and unlike you, I have not had an occasion to use them. The offer is still good. I would like to get shipping too, if that is OK. I can let you know the total tomorrow (the PO is just across the street from my house).
Thats fine, let me know what the total is. I'll get a check headed your way.
Matt
$130 + $10 postage = $140.Those spikes are really fun, enjoy.BW
I'll get some money headed your way. Might be a day or two before I can get a chance to send it out.
Matt
Labored, over the long weekend with the 2 sons, about 45 more sticks of Hardi & will be painting between the snow flakes!
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Looking great Glen.
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Thanks!
Still a long Row to Hoe!
Hope to call rough inspections in the 2nd week of Oct?
Will be nice to get the outside Osb covered & drywall on the walls, it's been a year since we got the permit. Just had to renew it. Think were doing ok for 120 miles away & just weekends.
Hope your New Crib is going well!
You've got tons more energy then I have especially for driving that distance.
The new crib is doing alright. Wife stopped by tonight and the pocket doors and the new door going to the deck we are adding are marked in the wrong spot. But that's par for the course. LOL. At least she caught it before they had to rip em back out.
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G, Hope the progress continues for ya. I have project going in Vail and may need a new GC/ framer. Send me an email if you have any suggestions. Tim
Winter is knocking on the door!
Were trying to get most of the outside wrapped up!
Had a Heck of a time finding a Stucco crew.
Got 90% of the exterior painted.
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Here's the progress up in the MTs.
Should post some city action soon.
Did a 3 dayer in the Mts to clear the mind.
As you can see, we "Build Green"!
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After working 40 plus hrs. in the last 3 days it's time for A Break!
This ones for Me!
Back to the Grind in the AM!
You have fine taste in beer, Sir! I love Bavaria. The lodge is looking good too. As others have said, the kids are getting a great experience there.Today, I put a countertop in an improvised basement apartment kitchen in Winona, MN (for a young couple that was flooded out of my little town in August).I also rebuilt an oak floor grate for a 1908 Craftsman home. It is like a micro floor system with joists and purlins. I made 3 new "joists" and 5 new purlins to replace the broken ones.
Nice job on the Grills!
As to the Beer, went to an Oct. fest in Sept, all they had was the Erdinger on tap, drinking out of a liter size mug, couple roasted Pigs, band & more good food. That was a good night !
--"all they had was the Erdinger on tap"Sounds like the Erdinger tent at "the Oktoberfest" in Munich. There you have to show up by 9:00 AM to get a seat and wait 'til 10:00 AM before they start serving beer. The hardships we have to go through.Glad you liked the floor grate. That was the first time I've done that. It was like working on a dollhouse. The "joists" were 5/16" x 1-1/4" and the purlins 5/16" square. The 23 ga. pinner was perfect for that stuff.
Now you got me going!
Does it get any Better then this?
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Reply to G80104 and BasswoodWhat's wrong with you guys, did I do something to you that you have to punish me that much?
Oktoberfest in Munich and you are posting pics of a good beer"Ich werde hier noch wahnsinnig"Martin
now yur talking..lol
Talkng snow,
Been waiting for the utility company to install gas & electric mains from the Street to the house. Applied for service a year ago, still no word, it cuts across the driveway (elect. & gas) guess it will be next year before we get a driveway. Xcell engery (power & gas company) $ucks! Bunch of union boys that could nt find there a$$ with both hands if it was in a paper bag.
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View of the day Job, Calling in final inspections.
6 unit building we poured the foundation 3-30-07
Foundations for the duplexes were poured late May.
Hope to be out the door by Jan 08!
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Winter returns at the "Man Cave"
Insulation in, Drywall started!
Can't wait for floor coverings!
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Finally winter happening here! We poured a slab on friday and covered it.
On saturday it dropped to fourteen degreees with high wind.
Woke this morning to the start of a 12" snow promised.
Got the plow mounted yesterday and just called the crew to cancel the day
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Had to enlarge a window well hole for a basement to accept a bigger stair unit - using the Bilco Scapewel instead of a smaller one. I was hoping the ground wasn't frozen yet. turns out the first few inches were rock hard, but then soft underneath. Got a little too close to the pvc sewer pipe and was worried about it cracking as I slammed my shovel into the hard earth - so I went in for the day.
Instead, I did an old fashioned mortar bed for a barrier-free shower, then went to the shop and built 10 cope and stick doors. Justin Fink - FHB Editorial
"Everybody wants to know what I’m on...
What I'm on? I’m on my bike, busting my ### 6 hours a day…
...What are you on?"
- Lance Armstrong
And all that before 9:38AM!want a job?hope you got that hole covered.
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ok, ok...so that's what I did yesterday. Today I started doing some research on Hubers zip roof system. Then on my lunch break I continued work on a closet built-in.Justin Fink - FHB Editorial
"Everybody wants to know what I’m on...
What I'm on? I’m on my bike, busting my ### 6 hours a day…
...What are you on?"
- Lance Armstrong
I'm doing my first house ever right now with the Huber Zip system... walls and roof. Decent system.... jury is still out. Taping all those seams is PIA.... my guys don't much like it.... especially inside corners. The roof oughta be a trip... buncha hips and dormers. I'm still trying to figure out how to price it..... I'm around .16 a lineal foot (on walls) as far as I can tell so far. Roof oughta be another story. I gotta admit though.... it'll be nice to be 'dryed in' before we're actually dryed in. Especially with the current weather.
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"Especially with the current weather."No sh!t!We got 9" so far of heavy wet white stuff and still coming down.So for what I did today was plow snow and shovel snow and complain about snow....Wore me out!
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lort's more here ya can have ....
that'd really give ya something to complain about...
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We didn't get nearly as much as you guys, but just enough to make today miserable. We left by 2pm today. After the snow stopped we just had a steady drizzle and the temp hovered right around 33 all day. Just one of those raw days where your tape measure won't retract, you're covered in wet sawdust/mud, and no matter what you're wearing you feel wet and cold. I'd rather have it be 20 degrees and dry.View Image
Hey Brian,
I'd love to come up and take a look, but I might need some of those cold weather dressing tips you mentioned!
What do you have happening next week in terms of framing? I figure we might as well shoot a process of some kind while I'm there, if it makes sense, that is. Justin Fink - FHB Editorial
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What I'm on? I’m on my bike, busting my ### 6 hours a day…
...What are you on?"
- Lance Armstrong
Early next week we should be starting with the roof framing. Some of the sheathing should be going on by Wednesday anyway. Lotta cutting though.... almost all hips on this one. Hopefully starting with some of the trim by Friday. Shoot me another email or just respond to this post on Thursday or Friday and I'll have a better idea of what's up.
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We've got 50kt winds and driving rain so I opted out of work. Today, I heated up the shed and extracted honey out of the 20 frames or so filled up by the backyard bees this summer.
Sticky business. Now I've got 10 gallons of honey.
Christmas presents.
You need to join in on the 4th Annual X-mas exchange in the fest folder, & I will pimp Neil, so you get my name.
That looks like some Tasty Goods!
Got started in the am hoping to finish a siding job long underway. Ran out of J molding (yup, it's vinyl). Got tied into an old electric box in a rotten wall, took a chunk out of the day. Realized that the siding they got for me yesterday wasn't the right color or the right material. Took it back to the yard to swap for the other box they had - but that wasn't the right one either! Got back and went to the front porch to rewire 2 lights. Found out it was originally wired by a maroon - example: double switch in the wall with three white wires to the switch from 3 different lines, black wire cut off and pushed into the back of the box. Second example- porch ceiling light had 2 wires to it (black and white?, couldn't tell), but the two wires came from different cables and the other wires were missing! Got it to work.
Home for dinner. Went to Loews for a faucet ($68 for the cheap one??!!). Wound up with $300 worth of stuff. Thank God I only had the little truck. Couldn't carry anything big. :-)
I had enough.
How's that work? I'll send out a pint of the golden goo, as long as I don't get, like, a holey paper bag of mixed hand nails in return.
;-)
Went to school with two brothers that raised Bees & sold Honey. This was 25+ years ago. They did real well. They also would get paid by farmers to set up their hives at different farms.
I've had only a couple hives at a time--as many as six one year. There's a beekeeper's supply house in town that keeps a list of beekeepers who will handle swarms. In the spring I get on the list and get calls every week from folks who have a swarm in their tree, on the house, or whatnot. I go out and scoop 'em up, bring 'em home and stick 'em in a hive.
It's really fun--but a lot of work. You become more a 'bee haver' than a 'bee keeper' when things get too busy and that doesn't work out so hot sometimes. Without the 'keeping' part you can end up with 60,000 bees in the neighbor's tree.
Commercial keepers now are having a lot of trouble because of the variety of diseases, parasites and the new 'colony collapse' disorder--where they just take off and leave empty hives.. Haven't seen it yet out here.
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From Wisconsin--now in Oregon. Miss the snow actually--have to drive up into the mtns to get in it here...
You'd better get busy with that shovel!
Sunday afternoon....
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primed one bedroom 12 x 14 a large living room 14 x 22 and 2 small halls and one entry room a 3 about 8 x 9 paint tomorrow. finish coat next day then build a mantle over fireplace and a safety gate at top of basement stairs about 5 ft across and they don't want a door.Carpentry and remodeling
Vic Vardamis
Bangor Me
Drywall finish is done! (Major Milestone!!!!) End it up hanging the rock with my sons taped the garage & paid some guys $7 a sheet to tape ther main house. It took them 2 days for 3 guys to do it . 32 boxs of mud. That was mony well spent.
I did texture myself (knock-down) bought a Graco TX 90 texture machine $700 at the Depot was mark down to $350 plus we had a 10% off coupon.
Anyhow now the fun begins, we have about 1000 ft of hardwood to install trim, tile paint cabinets, Just glad the drywall is done, as we have been at the drywall each weekend since mid Dec.
Is the Breaktime Labor exchange still up & running?
Set tile in one bath this weekend......
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Looking good! Glad yur done with the drywall, maybe I can visit again now. ;-)
$7/sheet is not a bad price, and you made a score on the texture setup. They paid for the mud, right?you only get one chance to do it right the first time
Thanks!
Were going to wall out with the paint, then flooring, then Cabinets, then trim. It's going to be Fun!
The Mud, The Mud, we paid & paid!
watch out...
the flooring is 1.5x12" pieces and make yur oun T&G.....
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WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
nice work...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Porclain tile on the walls, the cut out for the shower/tub control was 2" by 2" off the corner of the 12"x12" tile. Guess how many broke before we figured out how the pros cut them? By the way how do the pros cut them?
finger cuts the to the scribed line and clean up with the nippers...
or so I'm told...
started the marble yet???
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
diamond hole saw...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
As we spoke,
Cover both sides of the tile in Tape (used the blue painters tape) that was the only way we could cut so close to the edge without Breakage. It was about 12:15 am before we figured it out.
hadn't heard that one...
filed away...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
$7/sheet... sounds like a great deal... Going rate here where I am is 70cents/sq foot, which does not include drywall itself, or mud. .. so about $22.40 per 4x8 sheet of drywall.. for labour only.
As my young Protege was painting (wall-out) sprayed 55 gals of paint on all the drywall. My Son & myself got started on Hardwood this weekend, (forgot to bring a jig saw). We also did a test fit of one of the Metal rails that will be installed on top of a White Oak cap!
Snow theres a lot of it, will take a pic of the snow next weekend.
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It's starting to look like a house.
Two demerits for not having a jigsaw with you at all times.
I'm not as funny as I think I am
about 1000 more sq ft of hardwood to install & the back is still holding out. Training son # 1 on the fine art of hardwood install!
Tile, we still got a boat load!
Will need someone to install cabs (hint, hint$$)
Will be up again this weekend , need to get all sorts of stuff up there!
There is all kinds of Snow left!
To top it off, were slammed at the day job, just finished 2 foundations & they have me showing the Cubs how to finish 14 units. Gave them to me at drywall. 54 stair risers in each unit! Am getting to old for that kind of shid!
Actually sounds like good news on the day job - means there's work going on. New construction has slowed down considerably here, but the remodeling phone keeps ringing!
Have stuff to do Sat, if it doesn't rain, but not working Easter Sun.
I'm interested in the cabs, let me know when you are ready.
Hey, did you happen to get in on the VISA IPO? I hope you did. Up $20 a share in two days.
Remember yur jigsaw. :-)
I'm not as funny as I think I am
More then likely late April on the cabs, were trying to get the loft up & running. This way we got a better place to crash. Hope to get a bathrm up & running so we can have a Royal Flush before we have a Full House, but my Ski Posse will be in town for 2 weeks starting the 30th. So this weekend we need to get Busy cause we will be playing the next week.
Got 95% of the cabs @ casa del Caste Rock & Roll, so will spring for maybe next weekend for transport..
On the IPO were leaving that for Rez, the day job got me running, find it hard to fire up the puter, today we spent 7 hrs installing backing for metal railings in the 14 units . Cutting in after DW, got home once again after a 11 hr day (were on salary) covered in const. glue & a few dull blades.
Put down concrete floor in my 60x30 garage/workshop, looks like i am going to be up all night power trowelling.
Onwards and upwards????????????????
I finally:
put in one of those old semi bending desk lights for task lighting in the workshop
put wood "pads" on my vice
and made a dolly with 4 2X4s and 4 casters
Can you hold the laser level while I shave?
Melt down has started,hope we get one of them Big Spring Time Dumps!
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Today I finished a porch repair, while listening to John Dillinger's henchmen shoot up the bank.
OK maybe it wasn't the bank, maybe just gunning down some Fed's.
Actually, Hollywood has come to downtown Oshkosh. They are filming a movie about John Dillinger called "Public Enemies" starring Johnny Depp. Had to drive past the set on the way to the job. I'm about 4 blocks away and working when I hear "Bang, Bang, Bang," as gunfire echoes in the streets. (Sounded like they shot that scene 4 times)
Got detoured a little on the way home. Bunch of 1920's cars parked down one street, and a couple of "Movie Star" sized tour buses and RV's parked near the library. And a whole army of support people and vehicles.
Bowz
Cabinet install, Snows almost gone, but 12" of the wet slop last week. think the lake will be fishable in 30 days!
Still trying to figure out why the local hill closed a month ago?
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The cabin is looking good, I'll bet sometimes you feel like you're never going to get done.
It does look like spring is trying to show up, the river has been muddy the last several days, and yesterday I saw a raft on the river in town.
There are two kinds of people who never amount to much:those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
Baseboard, (the end is near!) thinking carpet in a few more weekends! Two years & we see a light @ the end of the tunnel!
A view of a Fourteener out my favorite window!
Still got a bunch of Crown to run & a garage door opener!
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Wow, has it been two years?
So what are you going to do with yourself when you get weekends off?
Start another one??
Farther away???
LOL
Good job.
Were starting a new one 5 blocks from Coors Field, 7 units (think they will be High dollar) Should start by the end of the month. I can see the The entrance from the lot. Zero lot lines, this ons going to be a blast.
Maybe you & the Boys come down & will catch a game before the end of the Season?
Working on the Deck this past weekend. Hope Carpet gets installed next weekend, then maybe a Mini Fest with hook line & sinker would be in order!
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Wow, looks different without all the snow. You are really close now. An angling minifest sounds great!
Lance Armstrong will be in town (Leadville) this weekend, for the 100mi bike race. Got to take advantage of the nice weather we have been having past few weeks.
Were close Real close!
Lance Armstrong will be in town (Leadville) this weekend
He was just here last week for Ragbrai http://www.ragbrai.org/ , the annual bike ride across Iowa, how the hell does he find time to hang out with all those movie stars out in Hollywood!
The place is looking good!
Doug
Let me know when the mead is ready to drink!;)
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Ironically, my neighbor is a big home brew nut. He was working for the "Valley Vintner" a home brewer's specialty shop. Now he's the head brewmeister for a local pub. He still home brews all the time and we trade back and forth over the fence. Tool use/beer, Honey/Beer, Bicycle maintenance/Beer... He has a 'Kegerator' frig set up with 4 taps. Usually he has three beers and rootbeer or soda for his kids.
Nothing like a fresh cold pint handed over the fence after a hot summer day.
I gave him about 2 quarts of honey last year to make mead. I don't know if it turned out or not.. takes a long time I think.
Lay a 2" 4x8 sheet of XPS flat over your hole, add a sheet of 1/2" ply over that and screw it into the earth with Timberlock screws...the heat from the basement will then thaw out the ground for you.Keeps snow/ice/water out of your hole too.I looked at a cabinet install and a Karran sink repair job this morning...this afternoon I will attempt to "SketchUp" an entertainment center plan and pay bills--WhoooHooo!
Cool! Put in a summer beam, & you could build a model of my house...
I wish I was doing something.
Had minor surgery on a finger last week. I thought I was going to be able to start work again tomorrow, but I saw the doc today, and he said to let it heal another week before the stitches come out, and then I can start working again.
So I'm spending waaay too much time on BT, and driving my wife nuts.
And daytime TV sucks.
You can't beat a German beerMartin
Cool pictures! Looks like you'll be in that house by the holidays.
Not sure which holidays though!
Doug
Finally got to making the new capital molding for the rental house that I've been working on the last few weeks.
This molding has been driving me nuts (for the same few weeks). Tried three different places, nobody had anything close. Tried differnt profiles using what they had and different bits too. I spent too much of the day working on cutting it out. Nothing major - just a small cove over a small round, with three 90 degree pieces above, below and in between. Needed less than 50 feet - might as well have been 50 miles. Even the router table wouldn't work. Couldn't make the router fit.
Tomorrow, with a little luck, I'll start gluing it together and putting it up. Maybe I'll see if the camera can cooperate too.
Don K.
EJG Homes Renovations - New Construction - Rentals
Doug, everyday is a holiday around here. We like to say that the last 10% is harder to finish then the 1st 90% Think were at 50% right now, so we have a little more time before it gets rough.
I like the fact that you have your kids involved, good on you. I stops them from spending hours in front of the computer or doing stupid video games.Martin
Yeah that makes sense to me also because somebody has to pound the nails when us older kids are on the computor with breaktime.
"I agree girlbuilder. Sheetrock work is one of the most thankless jobs in construction. Seems few people appreciate the amount of labor that can go into drywall finish to get a passable job."That's the trouble, I am my own worst critic, won't leave it until its perfect or I'm about to lose my mind. I'm getting a little faster and more skilled as I've taken up a few in the last few years. Putting up in an old house has its special challenges as well. 14 sheets, walls and ceiling.
Spent an hour this morning applying a stain lifting poultice to a granite countertop to remove a baby oil stain.
Then wasted an hour and a half with my insurance agent going over home and auto insurance rates.
Spent the balance of the day making sales calls with local builders, giving them the dog and pony show on our lines of (gasp) imported Chinese plywood and maple cabinets.
We have been selling and installing them for 2 yrs. in condo projects and hadn't had the time to offer them to the smaller scale market. Now that we are staying ahead of the tile installer on our latest project, I figured I need to do more outside sales calls so I can get back to 60 and 70 hr. weeks.
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Looked at a job where a young female HO was attempting to install a new entrance door jamb for a rotten one and found that the entire wall was rotten. Concrete slab sloped toward the house and was higher than the wall plate!!! Bugs, rot, mold, yuck!
I told her what to do and left!
Spent the day overpricing my estimates and mailing them out!
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Good for you for not jumping in a helping like so many men are apt to do with a damsel in distress.I don't know about you people, but I find homeowner men will just as soon either continue to butcher it themselves or find an excuse to pay someone else to do it.As a woman I know other women who will often just throw their hands up, call out a mea culpa and merely wait. Even when (like myself) she doesn't ask, a man will come from somewhere to help her and end up doing it himself. ONly one homeowner woman i've ever known who said to my partner once as she was struggling with placing some PVC for her plumbing project while we were doing out thing. My partner saw her and sauntered over with a 'Here's how you do it." kind of thing and proceeded to do the work. She said emphatically, "No! Just tell me how and I'll do it and I'll ask you when I need more help." She was a riot and a very good customer.
Hell, she started it, I'm pretty sure she wanted to finish it, too.
Pretty sure. As I'm walking away, she said something like, you can't bid a job like this? I said no and left.
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Don't blame you, i would to no matter who it was.
My helper is back from fishing @ 11AM we removed a 10' x 5' window and replace a rotten sill, reinstalled and were eating salmon for dinner.
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I was on the phone in the 'office' all day putting together the final peices for a contract I have to present to a customer tomorrow for a housebuild going up next month hopefully.I hate sitting to work, I have to get up and pace about every hour and I still find myself easily distracted. That's why I do so well with, "Nail this." As soon as I'm not physically busy, I go nuts.
Dunno if you've followed any of the ADHD threads, but that classical ADHD behavior.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
Ya, and a healthy one at that.
be down with office work
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. A bird sings because it has a song.
Yes, I've done some research and it appears I've probably suffered from it since childhood.
Quit suffering and learn to love it. It's who you are.
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"Quit suffering and learn to love it. It's who you are."that's what I tell everyone else, not me.
Yeah, I'm that way too. A break is nice, but I gotta get going again, quick! I don't take lunch, I eat and work at the same time, and I work straight through start to finish.
It will be hell to retire, I'll be a basket case.
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My working partner doesn't take lunches either. A break to eat is about five or ten minutes then its, "Let's go!" and he's up and at it. Sometimes if the ole dogs are screamin' I like to take fifteen to let em rest. I'll protest, he'll get up and I'll sit there just to make my point and then usually can't sit much longer and am right behind him:)
By old dogs, I assume you mean your feet?!
I spend hundreds of dollars a year just trying to keep my feet under. My latest purchase was a pair of high tech hiking boots made of gore-tex with a $35 insert/orthotic type pad. So far, so good.
If I like 'em, they'll change their line and they won't be available when I need another pair in a year.
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Ain't it the truth!
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
Yes, my feet. As I lose weight and get back in shape it seems to get better; less gravity pull and stronger leg muscles help. I also was born with weak ankles (my legs all twisted up when I welcomed the world), so I think having feet problems will always be something I just have to deal with.I have insoles in my Carolinas that could prolly use a replacing, considering, now that I think about it, they've been in service since 2001.And yeah, I looked for a new pair of Carolinas of that model and of course, they've refurbished their line.
Are you using off the shelf insoles or one's custom made by an orthopedic doctor?
My mother has/had bad feet problems, the off the shelf didn't work well, once she has some custom made it made all the difference.
At price though, I believe she paid around 300 for hers
Yow, since the job I'm on presently has me in the po' house, I think I'll wait till the next one to get custom insoles, but a good idea none the less.
I could be wrong on the price, but for some reason that number stuck in my head. I'd at least check into it, an office visit isn't to bad, and if they make a difference and at least last a year, what's a buck a day for comfort?
FWIW, my mother has had the same set for a couple of years and switches them between shoes.. her problem is extremely narrow feet with a bad arch, different then your problem so your milage may vary.
and Cag4
on that orthodic thing I've heard there is a do it yourself kit available - search on internet maybe?
Try footsmart.com - everything for the feet, including socks of all kinds that do not have a lumpy toe seam.
Maybe its just me, but Carolina bootss felt like strapping a couple of 2x6s onto the bottom of my feet.
Some of the most painful boots I never wore out
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Uh, you were supposed to take the boot trees out first.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
they improved with the insoles. i hvae some chipewas, but those are my winter boots. They are insulated gore tex adn all that. They like space boots sometimes.
I posted those at 4 am this morning, not good to stay up too late working on a contract, see what happens to your mind?
Got rained out today from my siding job.
Did manage to squeeze in a small one hour project relocating a light fixture.
Also, did some major construction on a bed.
Also, watched a baseball game on ESPN.
Also, made organic vege soup.
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Went to the jobsite, to do some minor touchups on a small kitchen remodel and help (which meant stand on a ladder and hand stuff) to my parnter Frank who was putting up the dryer vent.Insulation/firestop inspection - passed - next funds disbursement. met with plumber -- wanna the money. electrician fixed minor issues and installed speaker wires for customer. wanna the money.Ate lunch at burger king next to hardware store to pick up hose clamp for dryer vent. decide to route out 3/4 stock and rout edge for molding peices for kitchen wall cutout to hide irregularities.Sick to my stomach the rest of the day until I went to the post office.Forgot power wire for computer, so couldn't do any paperwork on the job in between as planned. when to post office to send out copies of plans to other subs to get more details on a house build that looks more and more like I am going to walk away from. called people, called off evening side job for the night, stomach still all a mess.
Henry & myself worked today. Damp- proofing wear the old boots , the pants & hoddie with all the holes in them. Weather could have been better, had to wait for the temps to get above 32F.
Get the inspection & we can start backfill, were going to have to import fill. Few more foundations going in around our site, so were thinking there might be some extra close by.
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Awful lot of cottonwood fluff you got on the ground there.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
Cut out of work @ 1pm did the 100 mile trip to the lot. Were having small problems that turn into...
Having a hard time getting equipment to do my backfill. Everybodys trying to beat old man winter, so rental equipment is hard to find. But we need to go foward, so if we can't get equipment, were going to do some floor framing. Its only A 4' foundation wall.
Only one Boom truck in Mayberry, they name the price & terms. Asked the lady @ the woodworking company that owns the boom truck ( that should have been the first Red Flag) how much stick does your boom truck have? I was told 90 feet!
$95 per hr 2 drink min. $190 to set 2 beams . Ones 800lbs the other about 400 lbs. Still no back-fill, so 2 large makes sense.
Don shows up @ 3:30 with the National, with maybe a 26' bed, and a gib that might be 12'. This rig might be the ticket for setting trusses, 800 lbs of steel aint happening. Get them to set my little beam, which maxed out the boom. The 800 pounder need to go about 60' from where the POS national in perched. Could'nt even get it pass the point where the 400 pounder was set, under 40'.
Now I starting to get P.Oed asked WTF your OL tells me on the phone you can do 90'. Now Don want $150 before he bails on me! The jobs not done & I got 800 lbs of steel that still need to go another 20'.
The pi$$ing match is getting up & strong, I give him C-note & tell him to KMA! Told I going to get a lein on my place, Be my guess! was my return.
Mean while Don does not know hes parked on soft muddy ground, by the time he gets back to the rig its sunk to the Axels, not going anywhere!
Still got 800 lbs of steel for the weekend!
And Dons got the Large wrecker on the way!
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Installed solid-surface countertops this morning in a house built by a saint. Walls were as perfectly straight as I've seen, the corner was square, everything fit perfectly, no scribing, no dinkin' around. If they were all like that we'd be bored...not that I'm complaining.In the afternoon, we delivered some cherry spice racks and took care of a trim punch list, and got off early so I went on a bike ride with my 14 year-old, before helping with math & spanish homework. It was a very good day.