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Thanks for the good words. Maybe I'll take on a chaise lounge version sometime for fun :) These chairs work pretty good in the snow - I'd drag them (and other supplies) to the pond in a sled and use for lacing up skates.

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Replaced the clock spring on the 03 Tacoma . This what happens when someone does work that has no clue how it works. Had the rack replaced by someone in Buffalo when my step son had the truck 3 months later I get the truck back with the air bag light on no horn or cruise . Knew instantly that the so called mechanic spun the wheel to line it up with input shaft on the rack . So now the spring had tension and eventually broke making lock to lock turns . Stepson said it had just happened so the shop was like 3 months not our problem . So a couple of hours and 100 bucks it's all working again

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Replaced the oil pressure sending unit on my Jeep.

I had an oil leak that was driving me crazy trying to find it. Finally the oil pressure starting getting lower but it was not low on oil, and I discovered that there was oil dripping out of the end of the sensor where the wire attaches, and then dripping down on the a/t cooler lines! Apparently it got bad enough that the sensor was leaking enough pressure that it read low.

$36 at O'Reilly's and about 30 minutes fiddling with it.

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I did blood tests and showed up to find my cancer test postponed until tomorrow. What an awesome day........lol

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That sucks, but good luck on it tomorrow.

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Praying that results are Good.

Keep us posted .














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All the best to you, Dale. Keepin' you in my thoughts.

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Praying everything is good for you Dale.

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Hoping it all works out well

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Thanks everyone, I appreciate the kind words.....

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Fingers crossed Dale - thinking good thoughts.

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yes sir,take care,we'll all hope for the best.

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Installed a woodgrain steering wheel in the 66 mustang I'm working on. Much better than the stock one, think I'm going to have to get another for my bronco.

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My thoughts and prayers going to you Dale!

on the truck side of things, I did use my Longhorn yesterday to drag my 71 K20 project back to the stalled project area. :lol:

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Well, it was last Friday, but I drove it to buy some wood. A guy is selling off his wood shop because he's getting too old for the work. I hope that never happens to me. Anyway. He has lots of wood, but it's mostly short sections of wood floor. He made many projects from it, but for my purposes I'd've had to plane the flutes off the back sides and it would be too much work. I did end up buying a piece of ribbon sapele. 4/4 by 3" wide by 4' long. Didn't need the truck for that. :lol:

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Smokin :metal:

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Looks Good:metal:

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While it’s cooking fixed the exhaust on the Tacoma flange on the cat rotted away causing a slight leak and throwing a code. Company in Canada makes these .

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Yesterday I picked up a bunch of seed pods from a locust tree and got the swamp cooler ready for summer.
Today I took delivery of a pickup load of unsplit firewood, mostly dry cedar with a little doug fir. Now I have something else to do! :)

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Uncoiled and hooked up the long garden hose in the yard, then hosed mud off the 4runner and the Silverado. They're not clean still but probably a lot lighter :)

I just don't get the mud bogging on purpose thing anymore ;)

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Finished up around 5

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Put the foot pedal back in my little red coupe. Worked on the house a little to. Summer is just around the corner.:metal:

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I missed some time so here is where I'm at with that place to move things from the building I'm moving to. I decided to extend it to the building, leaving room for the 'move'
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I decided to build a floor to make more storage space, so put joists in and sheathed it. Dang plywood and OSB are just about $50 just for 1/2"! You can buy solid core maple veneer right next to it for the same price. Crazy. I bought T-111, which is fir, for $10 a sheet cheaper.
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Yesterday I did concrete work I'll get pictures of. I still need to install a ridge cap before I can start storing things up in the new attic. The style I like is bare galvanized and I paint it the red. I had scuffed them up and wiped down with vinegar the other evening, so I cleaned those up and got primer on them, too. Today I'll paint and if dry enough install. I think it's warm enough now. Seeya!

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You've been busy. ;)

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Did you anchor it down ? Looks like it's on deck support blocks . Town made me ancher it to the pured patio when I did mine .

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I haven't done anything yet. Not sure how I'll go about that. I intended it to be temporary, made to be dismantled and moved once the barn is moved. That t&g gable siding is on two panels I can unscrew from behind. I may keep it and if I do I'll get rid of the blocks and do it right. It needs sides now. I don't want permanent sides if it does stay, so maybe just heavy plastic. Gotta go paint

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Huh! Maybe I can go ahead and side the pole barn. I figured T-111 must be $100/sheet now based on 1/2" ply and OSB.

I've got to build a new floor in the 12x16 addition where we tore out the old hot tub and rotten decking. The redwood was okay but all the joists were gone. What I salvaged is all short pieces. I already figured ply/osb and 2x6's are going to run about $700! Ply is only $4 more so to heck with OSB. I hadn't thought of putting T-111 upside down for a floor.

Worst part is there is no sill as the wall was built right on the stem wall, so I've got to figure out some way to hold it up? Originally they built a little 2x4 wall about 12" high and that completely rotted out. So I'm thinking about some cinder blocks with the scrap redwood on top for spacers to get the right height - basically build a double plate of 4' long redwood 2x6 staggered like bricks with the concrete blocks about every four feet?

There is about a 6" wide lip of the footer inside the stem wall (3 sides), plus about an 8'x8' concrete slab more or less in the middle that the hot tub was sitting on. Nothing about this is standard construction so I'm having a hard time figuring out how to do it "right."

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Lumber prices are nuts right now. (And have been) I priced a 12x16 shed last spring at about $1500 for everything but the roof. Last week I priced it again at $2500 now for the same list of stuff(I already have all the wood siding so that’s not included) crazy. That’s me doing all the work.

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You have to wonder what a prefab building would cost now.

I have been putting off re-siding my shop. It currently has 4x8 8"oc fir siding on it. I have been thinking of going with metal siding to put an end to painting. With these high lumber prices I imagine metal has gone up as well. So I don't know.

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Nice, I’ve got my homemade file cabinet running as we speak, alternating oak and apple. The brisket will hopefully be done this evening. 10-12 hours total at about 200-220.

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The floor I did will only be supporting things I stuff up there. No standing/walking on this floor.

I paid a bit more than $38. It seems it's only the framing materials they have spiked the prices on. Finish grade stuff isn't so effected by the BS.
The metal hasn't been effected from what I've seen. I stripped the shake roof off one side of the barn and put new metal on about the time I went missing, and had to buy four pieces for this project.

Concrete form. Trying to make a better transition from stone to concrete and give a better path back to the shed side the barn is moving into

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$38 per sheet for fir is about what it was here the last time I checked. I also looked at LP Smart Siding for a little less.

I noticed the lumber yard I used to manage inventory is way down and I asked if it was intentional and was told lumber is just hard to get. They have a number of outages regularly. And that is the way of the new owners among their other companies as well even before the covid.

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In winterizing our camper for last winter I found the fresh water pump no longer worked so I kept it in mind and now it's time to de-winterize it so today I went looking for the pump. Lands sakes alive. They hid that thing. Luckily the pump still runs so I had to track it down by sound. It's in a small hole under the cookware in a cabinet no where near plumbing fixtures. On top of that when installed they ran the four mounting screws down into the rubber mount so far the rubber closed up nearly covering the screws enough I could not get a socket on them for removal. I ended up using a dremmel tool with snake attachment and small cut off disk to cut away the rubber around those screws. It will be reinstalled better than that. ;)

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Yeah,, mine is under the counter top behind two drawers ,,and the divider between the two drawers does not allow enough room for my shoulders to easily get in there to repair the part that froze on me,.. so I had my brother do it for me he's smaller than I am.

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You may get an idea how small an area it is to work in. I cannot get my head and hands in there at the same time. :lol:

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They build those things from the inside out, and apparently don't care if you can ever fix or replace anything :rolleyes:

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This will be a real room of some sort - which is why we finally got the hot tub cut out of there: it was almost totally wasted space because we couldn't get the parts to fix it. Probably a summer bedroom for the grandkids or something? It's just weird because the floor will have to be structurally separate from the walls. It's tempting to have a couple steps down and make the concrete slab be most of the floor ....

T-111 was about $35 a couple years ago when I was checking into it. I would need 27 sheets to go around three sides of the pole barn plus a few more for the part that's taller than eight feet.

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My smoker I built to it's on a trailer so I can move it around . I've been using higher temps lately 275° +/- seems to be working out well .

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Washed the 4Runner and Impala. Cleaned up my shop some and finished up closing in the last end wall over a roll up door with thin tongue and groove. Cut wood for framing bathroom mirrors. I did the first one a few weeks ago.

Hope to get back to the truck next weekend.