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Yeah, so true. The one friend is my brother-in-law I am close with. He's the guitar player I have shown in the music thread and my "kayak on the river: buddy. Out of the group of four buddies who hung together in HS I am the only one living. I'm only 67
That's doing a whole lot not on your truck. Congratulations on building a new house

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Nice.

We have to go down 42 inches for footings

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I noticed the "shallow" footers as well. You're at 42", ey? My b.i.l. in Maine says 48" up there. We are at 30" here and up in Western Maryland it's 36". I found out recently that the counties surrounding Wash, DC only need to go 24". I haven't seen the ground freeze a foot deep since I can't remember.

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Ya were actually in the 36 zone but the town feels it’s better to go further . I’ve actually dug a few holes by hand here last February. Ground was frozen about 8 inches . Very dry area so I’m sure the wet area was much deeper .

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I'd rather dig deeper than repair a building after it heaved from frozen ground.

Went over the rental house and removed all the mini-blinds that the renters trashed, and tore out some shelving that my F-i-L put up in the garage many decades ago. I managed to rip out some nice 1" X 12" planks with nice tight grain from some of the shelves. Those planks are well over 50 years old, so they'll need TLC when machining for a project- they'll be a bit brittle from age, for new work. I'm talking like 16 growth rings per inch. It'll be beautiful after I run it through the planer.

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i got a nice light duty electric hydraulic press today. I even said I am going out to work on the truck and not get distracted by stuff. whoops.

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I tell you, the best wood is salvage

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Well over the weekend:mm:

I done something I should have not Done.

I bought another Lathe.:lol:

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I remember buying wood for projects all the way back when I was in junior high, and that stuff was all about tight knots and small growth rings. After high school and the Navy, ('76) when I went to work on stuff I couldn't believe what the wood looked like. We left some of the shelves that had oil stains over there, but I'm going to look more closely at them. One problem is that my F-i-L put a hose bibb in the garage, and it sticks out of the wall to the edge of the shelves. I could scalp all those shelves off the wall and put in a shorter nipple, but those shelves have stains from oil cans being stored on them. I don't know if there would be decent wood left if I planed those shelves down. I'll have to really look. Wood one gets nowadays looks like feces. My son does handyman work and fixed some chairs for little kids at a local private school. The wood he got was grown in New Zealand, and I kid you not, the growth rings were 1/4"!

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We are doing 10" footings and 36" stem walls, wanted a 4' crawl space. We'll be back filling a little bit. Got more done today.

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Was going to put a new exhaust on my old truck over the weekend but ended up:

- changing oil and rotating tires on the 4runner
- working on a leaking sink in the laundry room
- golf cart went down and had to troubleshoot to the micro switch in the pedal. Waiting on a new one to arrive. I have a drawer with probably 12-18 micro switches and none would work, of course.
- cut a large pine tree for a neighbor and also the last one I wanted out of my yard

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A lot of clear white pine I get is either from New Zealand or Sweden. It amazes me. I guess worldwide ocean transport is so common these days it's more economical. Here are end cuts from the siding and a ceiling joist on that 150+ year old building I'm working on. An interesting jog in the grain I'm curious about
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Moving it along. Sounds like a good plan.
You'll never get that exhaust on there if you keep procrastinating like that :lol:

Sounds like me. I hardly ever get anything done as planned. Always get "steered" into getting something else taken care of. And I that's not from having a wife! :cool:

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I got nothing on that, unless maybe something damaged the tree and it just didn't "heal" right?

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Been cleaning out storage trailers and inventorying what I actually need and what can go. I have about 15 different ones of these cold air balloons that no longer get used due to zoning restrictions. 30' tall and a bugger to setup and take down by myself. Takes 3 guys on top of a gas canopy if the wind is blowing :lol:


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I bet my neighbors would love me if I had one of those in my front yard =)

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Dang Bill. Slow down a bit. You are pushing yourself way too hard on a weekend. :lol:

We made a trip to south La to see the new grandson.

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Congrats on the new grandson! That's a worthy trip any time.

I hear you. Didn't really even take the time to consume any cold drinks of my favorite variety either. In truth, the trees took the most time. The one at my neighbors was all of 90 feet tall. Took it down and limbed/bucked it up so he could push it into a burn pile. My pine was a bit easier at only about 50-60 feet tall. Had it down and limbed/bucked in about an hour and a half.

Forgot that a third neighbor came over to get two logs out of the tree I cut and I helped him put those and a few others in the backstop he was building in his back yard for a new pistol range.

This weekend is off the table. Wife and I are heading to northwest AR for the War Eagle craft show and then I have to head up to Branson to play golf with a VP of my company on Sunday before a big meeting on Monday/Tuesday. Yeah, tough life.

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Congratulations on the new grandson . I have two grandsons and a granddaughter. There fun and when the get cranky I can give them back . :lol:

Went from bodyman to stone mason in one day . Fixed the area that the top of the drywell gave in . Fixed that this spring finally found the time to finish up . Didn’t take a picture after I spread the joint sand

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Thank you.

You really are a jack of all trades and I'd bet your wife is too. ;)

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thanks guys.we made it home last night.we did about 750 miles last Saturday and another 500 or so on Sunday, arriving at supper time in Medina,Ohio.stayed Saturday night in Albany,NY at a Days Inn,what a dump and $250.00.a real deal??anyway it was awful nice to see our friends although Bob doesn't look well,very thin and frail,but his wife did say after we were there a couple days,that he seemed better than he had in a while.he had a few appointments Monday and Tuesday but none Wednesday so they asked us to stay Wednesday and we did but then that meant leaving Thusday early as my wife had to work today,,doing 750 or so again Thursday,stopping in New Boston,NH at Happy Dans to pick up parts i had shipped to him(thanks Dan) with another 500 or so to do yesterday to get home.a stay at a Best Western in Portland,Maine was very nice but it poured rain most of the way home. i think when we said our goodbye's Thursday and left,we drove a few hundred miles without the radio on or saying a word to each other,very sad.he says they're going in Decemeber to their winter place in Arizona and then hoping to fly here to see our new place.i hope they can.

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Mr.Mudd if I had known you were going to be that close I’m about an hour east of Albany could have met up .

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hey Mark,that would've been cool,we were on I-90 all the way from Mass into Ohio.it would've been great to meet some guys along the way although time was short,Happy Dan in NH had parts for me to pick up coming home and the time was so short,we couldn't hang aroung for more than a few minutes,maybe next time.i'm going to do my best to make it back to the Charlotte Autofair in April after missing a couple years and the World of Outlaw sprint cars at Williamsgrove Speedway in Mechanicsburg,Pa next season a couple of times if i can do it.i'll be around.take care.Greg.

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In between working on the truck had a little helper with firewood . Three generations working the pile .

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^ Cool. I'd like for my spawn to spawn!

Finished scraping all the tint off the windows in the den of our rental house, per the recommendation of our realtor. She says the style now is "bright". They're going to be sorry, unless they bring in some trees to plant. That den got hotter than a pistol in hot weather, even with R-19 insulation. 120 square feet of glass. Lots of single-edge razor blades sacrificed their edges, and I burnt about 8 hours off my life with that task. :uhmk:

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I have experience stripping film tint with razor blades. I later was told a hair dryer or heat gun works better for removing the film. Never tried it though.

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Got all the bar tied up today and we drove the wife's 73'

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:facepalm: NOW, someone tells me! :lol: I did think about heat, but didn't want to chance breaking a window.

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A young couple from Minnesota ran a wheel off their fifth wheel camper. I helped get them get the spare on enough to get to a local KOA for the night.

They will need new lug studs before they leave town.

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Today, I went back over to the rental house for more cleanup. Moved stuff around, putting it in the trash bin or the recycle bin, third trip. I discover that they left eggs in one of the trash bags! I was talking to my wife about how that trash has been piled there since September 30th, and it didn't stink. She told me that it was a good thing that I didn't break any of those eggs open when throwing them in the trash. :lol:

Question- they left 6 quarts of CVT oil behind. Is anyone interested in that? I personally want to just recycle it. Even if it's $20 a quart (made up number), it isn't worth using, compared to the cost of one of those transmissions. Dumping it at the local O'Reilly's strikes me as the best solution. Man, these people were pigs. Hopefully the carpet will clean up. At least there are no burn holes in it. :lol:

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Customer complaint (wife) that there is a clunking noise from passenger side . Damn thing was so rusted solid I had to cut the housing to move the bushing . This is on my 04 Envoy

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I'd be up for World of Outlaws at Williams Grove. Something to think about is often that coincides with the Carlisle shows. I have gone from the truck show in August. I know how it is when traveling distance. I'll be right where something is I've wanted to see and knowing this is a rare opportunity I will still tell myself I can always come back again :rolleyes:. But any stop at all eats up major travel time. stop for gas and a rest room visit and it seems like an hour is lost

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very true.i've been twice to Garlit's Museum of Drag Racing twice,closed both times,then last winter,we flew to Florida to visit the same folks we just drove to Ohio to see and the man is fighting cancer.leaving with a Toyoto pick up a friend here bought,a 56 Desoto Hemi motor and a pair of trailer axles for me,drove by the museum again,but no time to stop as we had to get home.never enough hours in the day.my wife said,go ahead and stop but she doesn't realize,i would need all day there and likely still not see it all.next time i'm wanting to got to Williamsgrove,i'll check and see if you're around,i'll come get you.take care.

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They have a pretty nice little motorsports museum near Williams Grove. It's right where the small fairgrounds (horse) track is where the auto racing got started before Williams Grove track was built, as the cars got faster.
emmr.org

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that's cool.i will have to look that up next time i get there.i have been twice to the The Wheels Through Time Museum in Maggie Valley,NC and would go again in a heartbeat.those places are so interesting,so much cool stuff to see..

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Rip cut this cherry today . Even though it was standing dead I still need to let it dry and make a couple of benches . Spent the rest of the day splitting wood nice mix of cherry white and red oak and lots of hickory

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Cleaning and painting at the rental house, now that the deadbeat renters are gone. Getting close to the finish line, with selling the place.

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a couple of weeks ago,i mentioned how my wife and i were leaving here on Oct 8th for a run to Medina,Ohio to visit dear old friends,Bob & Diane.Bob is struggling with pancreatic cancer and not doing well.they wanted to come here this year after covid finally calmed down a little but now that he's sick,he can't go anywhere,so we loaded up and went to see them,with their permission of course.i can't imagine being sick and having "company" but they wanted us to come and wild horses wouldn't have kept me away.we got there and found out that he had,in his collection of things,some old Canadian coins and had a key chain made for me with a 1913 penny and one for my wife with an 1885 penny.i polished mine up and hung my truck keys on it today.a special key tag for my special truck.

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Removed two non-operational fluorescent light fixtures from our rental house, and did some general patching in prep for final paint touch-ups. Those lights...we don't need no stinking electrical code! I'm amazed that that place is still standing. My FiL did some crazy stuff. I go every day and do a little. One, because my feet hurt from the arthritis after a couple of hours of standing and walking around, and two, to make sure that the neighborhood sees people around and someone doesn't break in and try to squat the place.

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Started a test fit of Hedman 3/4 length stainless headers #62010. Only had enough time to do one side so far.

Plenty of frame clearance, but a little tight by the TH350 trans. I'll trim some plastic from the dust cover and maybe hit the aluminum with a grinder.

Made in USA. Welds are beautiful.



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That's a very nice gift that you will cherish.