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Now you have something to build on. Things are going to take shape now. Your grandson has it in his blood

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[quote=davischevy;

I'm about 300' our side the city limits, so no inspections, but those walls we can see there are 10" because they will fill all the way to the top on the outside. I poured 8" where the walls didn't have backfill.[/QUOTE]

I do not know exactly what protects one for sure from a Tornado ,,but what you have there looks like it would do by one by hunching down inside them walls under the house .,,

Right on Tim, , I was thinking ?? Wouldnt we have fun working together with all them machines the Davis's have .. probably wouldn't stop to eat ..just keep on "playing " .. ( no offence Larry ,I know your Father and family worked hard to get the cats ,backhoes and trucks and all by working hard and not by winning a lottery or the like .) just dreaming a bit here,,

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Larry, I think about the machines a lot. The interesting part is, I didn't get any really nice machines until after I quit working and moved to the office. I climbed ladders and used pump jacks. I don't like to think about how many sheets of sheathing or bundles of shingles I carried up a ladder.

When I first started buying heavy equipment, I had to rebuild a lot of it before I could use it. My first dump truck was wrecked when I purchased it. My dad and I rebuilt it outside behind his shop because we didn't have a place big enough to get it inside. My first backhoe had 10,000 hours on it. If a machine broke, I had to fix it that night, because it had to run the next day.

I never financed anything unless there was perk in it, I saved until I could pay for it, except when I bought my first big excavator. I put it on a lease/purchase plan because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to pay for it. By leasing, if I ran out of work, I could turn it in with no mark on my credit.

The excavator paid for itself in less than a year.

Life has been very good to me.

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Basement and grandson are both looking good!

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Brought tears to my eyes raising them right!

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How's that other house coming Other Larry?

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The basement floor is poured and I have dug the rest of the footings since this picture was taken. You can see the stakes.

We will make another pour next week and then wait for the block layer.

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Other footers, huh? Hmmm...

Looking good. Looks like a nice setting

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I joined this site 14 years ago day before yesterday.

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Hard to believe how time has passed. I remember hitting ten years and being amazed. This new internet forum thing just may catch on.

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And look what you started !! a thread longer than dollar bills stacked all the way to the moon.. (Well maybe not that far) it's been a good one though..

I had some left over plastic gutter pieces and put up what I had on my storage shed and went to buy more and it is no where to be found ,, company sold out and left me high and dry with only part of my shed with a gutter .. the name of the gutter is RainGo .. any one know of some of it for sale and with in driving distance od me ?

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Maybe here Larry.

https://www.amazon.com/raingo-gutter...o+gutter+parts

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I hope you can find more to finish the job. I just got sticker shock earlier this week buying just one white aluminum 2 x 3 downspout... $28!!! That's a lot of money for a $10-$15 piece. And the lady who helped me acted really strange, as if 'she' thought 'I' was being strange. I'm pretty sure it wasn't me!! :lol:

Her: Can I help you?
Me: Yes, I need one white 2x3 downspout.
Her: Is that it?
Me: Yep
Her: All you need is just one downspout, nothing else?
Me: Yep
Her: Okayee (you know, when they say it like "if you say so").

When she went to get the invoice I decided to explain the situation, for some reason.

Me: I'm doing alterations of existing downspouts on an old home. I needed more material to work with. I don't use elbows, I miter the bends in my downspouts. I keep zip screws and rivets in supply.

As she hands me my invoice she says: "Whatever works" (in a tone to let me know she had doubt)

Me: Oh, it works quite well. It's called custom. I can make any angle or offset needed from a single continuous piece without adding in any wrinkled up elbows using less screws that will rust.

That's one single continuous downspout below

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building material store help these days probably have no idea how a rain gutter system works much less how to assemble or repair one - just as well have explained it to your shopping cart :lol:

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I know. She made me just want to be short, with "yep" answers. But I decided I'd act my normal self and when someone seems to not understand I am kind enough to explain. Though this time sarcastically. It wasn't that she didn't know her job. It's that she questioned a customer's needs when he came in full confidence knowing exactly what he needed. I think after 50 years in the business I look the part of someone with a little knowledge in the building trades. This place was bought by ABC Supply a handful of years ago, but I've been going in this supply house since the '80s. I didn't walk in looking lost and that's how she treated me.

Oh, and then who carries my downspout out? Tim, the only guy left from the former owner. This woman may have never seen me before, but he comes out and sees me and it's "hey old friend, how ya been?". I may not have been in there lately, but I've had an account there for over 30 years

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let's facetruckin' into october :metal:

https://www.refugeforums.com/attachm...38-png.358589/

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It runs and can carry a lot on the roof. Oh, and you don't have to worry about parking lot dings

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:lol: Sad, but all true.

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It's a survivor. Gotta give it that.

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He's increasing the value with every gallon he adds. :lol:

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Some like the look of pat-ina. This car has pound-tina!

Good one! :lol:

His clothes go well with the car color

"HEY! What are you doing?? The manual calls for hi-test!!

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From Facebook Marketplace. The only one! Apparently a body built on a '76 Seville

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In my head I think I could build something cool from scratch, but it would more than likely turn out like this ... Probably worse.

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:lol: One of a kind, and rare for a reason!

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Not everyone is a designer. Obviously.

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Just needs better wheels :lol:

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This guy apparently doesn’t watch Mecum or BJ

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You are trying to call me out with my one owner (before me) K10 aren't you.

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That Right There is a ;)

Well Used Truck:chevy::chevy::chevy:

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Is there (1) panel on it that doesn’t need to be replaced ?

Spid ?

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It was sold at the local dealer. I have lived within 5 miles of it since it was new and I did not know she had the truck until the auction a couple months ago. I have coffee with the salesman that sold and delivered it to her farm. It only shows 76,000 miles. I can't find a panel on it that is not dented.

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That's a Good history that you know on this Truck.


I would Glady drive That Truck:metal::chevy::chevy:

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Spid

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On that same cover, "Vintage Bronco restoration" article listed and picture of vintage Blazer getting bashed. I guess it's easier to bring back a dead Bronco than get an old Blazer to sit still long enough.

I think that non-original Kmart mirror was bothering the owner and he didn't have tools to remove it.

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One owner low mile truck right there. How I know it's low mile? You don't beat a truck up like that out on the road. They'd have your drivers license long before it got that bad! :lol:

Here's the tow truck my friend spotted across a junk yard and new it was the one his dad bought when he got back from Vietnam. He ended up selling it to a body shop who painted it green. My friend knew what he was looking at from a distance, climbed over cars to get to it, affirmed it was the truck, and waited till the owner (son of deceased owner) sold off the cars blocking it in. For now it's a pretty fall decoration. One day it will be restored

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I like it!

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I finally got a foundation in. I could only find a part time block layer. I ended up laying over a thousand of them myself.

Our framer is still 3 weeks out.

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Dang Mr. Davis, you must’ve eaten your Wheaties. That’s a lot of work.
(“Work hard become a leader,be lazy become a slave.”)
Hopefully you won’t have to break out your hammer.lol

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That's a lot of block! Here we generally pump it into forms. Of course, forms take a fair amount of time and materials.

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I typically would have poured the entire thing, but this had so many zigzag it was going to cost more than double.