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57taskforce 11-06-2020 07:56 PM

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Spent more than I wanted to on it but now I have something that should outlast me . Dont do much tile


The area is the back field past the barn cant see it from the house . I estimate 22 or more cord yet to buck and split .

I wouldn't be working on it right now as it has been beautiful here weather wise. But I only have 4 weeks till I get my hand surgery. Then I cant do much for 4 or 5 weeks . It's amazing how much faster it's going with the new saw.

Looks good! Sad times we live in when even the windows need face masks:lol:

davischevy 11-06-2020 09:27 PM

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Looks good! Sad times we live in when even the windows need face masks:lol:

I resisted the temptation, but I laughed anyway.

72c20customcamper 11-06-2020 09:54 PM

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Looks good! Sad times we live in when even the windows need face masks:lol:

:lol: Used it when I was cutting the hardybacker for the shelf . Used the Oscillating saw still made a lot of dust

special-K 11-07-2020 08:06 AM

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Looks good! Sad times we live in when even the windows need face masks:lol:

I find myself more prone to wear a facemask doing things at work I used to be stubborn (careless?) about using one for. I figure, might as well use it for what it was made for :cool:

prairewolf 11-08-2020 07:59 AM

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went to Church, had a good phone conversation with my Son where I listened during part of it,:), talked myself out of catfishing or rummage sales, so I could come home and change fuel filter on Lexus. also bought large black house coffee for drive home. I just finished good homemade brunch, so now I can go strip the inline rusted fuel filter lines, and figure out where to tow it to get it fixed right. :lol: so far so good, thanks for listening , have a good afternoon.

I was right that day, so today my Son gets to tow me to a guys house who will replace fuel line I cracked and fuel filter. He is perfectionist enough so everybody wins. :lol:

72c20customcamper 11-11-2020 08:06 PM

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Finished the tile on the shower 24 hours and I'll grout it . Now to start the floor first thing is to set up the radiant floor heat

special-K 11-11-2020 08:16 PM

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Great to see done I'm sure. I can't wait to get started on my tile work in the one bathroom this winter.

DeadheadNM 11-11-2020 08:34 PM

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That looks great

Ol Blue K20 11-11-2020 11:35 PM

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Nice job, it looks gooood!!

72c20customcamper 11-12-2020 08:37 AM

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Great to see done I'm sure. I can't wait to get started on my tile work in the one bathroom this winter.

Only 2 weeks left before my surgery then it'll be 5 to 6 weeks before I can do things unless I become a lefty
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That looks great

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Nice job, it looks gooood!!

Thanks

Ol Blue K20 11-12-2020 09:50 AM

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Only 2 weeks left before my surgery then it'll be 5 to 6 weeks before I can do things unless I become a lefty



Thanks

Lefty is ok, I've been practicing it all my life. :lol:

72c20customcamper 11-12-2020 12:01 PM

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Lefty is ok, I've been practicing it all my life. :lol:

Funny I can bat lefty or righty . Pool I can only do lefty and I tie my shoes lefty too . My mom is left handed so that’s how she taught us.

57taskforce 11-12-2020 08:37 PM

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Lefty is ok, I've been practicing it all my life. :lol:

Me too! I can do most things with my right hand though. That tile looks great!

72c20customcamper 11-15-2020 07:11 PM

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Had to put a new door in the kitchen . Got tired of using the seal n peel caulk every winter. Was a little shocked to see no flashing or at least tar paper on the sill or jack studs so I used the protect wrap . Found this on the molding little weird as the house was built in 1972. Maybe the carpenters birthday? Or the established date of the company that did the house?

67C10Step 11-15-2020 08:27 PM

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Sat in the deer stand for a few hours with my daughter's boyfriend early this morning. Saw a few does and one small buck but nothing worth the effort once it was down.

Loaded up a small trailer that was my father in laws and I will tear the wood floor out, repaint the frame, and install a new wood floor. Use it behind my atv around my place after I fix it up. Started tearing the wood off this afternoon but needed to finish up installing the new outside lights by the garage doors so I could say I finished at least one thing.

72c20customcamper 11-15-2020 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by 57taskforce (Post 8835081)
Me too! I can do most things with my right hand though. That tile looks great!

Thanks I did screw up a little around the shelf . It was planned for larger tile and the grout lines would have lined up with the bottom and top. No cut tiles like it has now

dieseldawg142 11-15-2020 10:39 PM

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Had to put a new door in the kitchen . Got tired of using the seal n peel caulk every winter. Was a little shocked to see no flashing or at least tar paper on the sill or jack studs so I used the protect wrap . Found this on the molding little weird as the house was built in 1972. Maybe the carpenters birthday? Or the established date of the company that did the house?

hah!
i guess i'm not the only one who does it.
ever since i started roofing in 1980 i have been throwing current year quarters in our roofs...
haven't ever come across any of them, but i have found other stuff like cigarette packs from the '70's and '80's.
prob got a thousand bucks in quarters out there in peoples roofs...lol

What started out as just a simple re-paint today, turned into a 4 hr job re-building my shed door roof.
Went to slap some paint on the door and the roof and found it dry-rotted. When the wife's clothesline pole took a dive a few yrs ago, it musta hit the roof. Flashing was buckled and leaking, and of course i never noticed....
when i re-stood the pole back up i dumped 4 bags of concrete around it, but wife still managed to put some lean into it, so i also bolted it to the shed and cut off the dry-rotted top
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didn't take a before, but this was from 2 winters ago
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57taskforce 11-15-2020 10:52 PM

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It’s funny, I can tell your pretty detail oriented. Your probably like me, those little things drive you nuts but no one else will probably ever given it any further thought. I did a bunch of mud work on some of the walls in my my house late last summer into early October. There’s a few spots that drive me crazy after we got the walls painted, my wife couldn’t find them if I paid her $1,000 too.

This afternoon I made a couple of Green Chile apple pies with my little girl. She turns 6 this week. Crazy how time flies. Us New Mexicans(even adopted like my self) will put green Chile in anything:ito:

I let my daughter put the lattice weave on. I think she did a pretty good job. I really didn’t do much to help her. I actually enjoy baking quite a bit.

72c20customcamper 11-15-2020 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by dieseldawg142 (Post 8836335)
hah!
i guess i'm not the only one who does it.
ever since i started roofing in 1980 i have been throwing current year quarters in our roofs...
haven't ever come across any of them, but i have found other stuff like cigarette packs from the '70's and '80's.
prob got a thousand bucks in quarters out there in peoples roofs...lol

What started out as just a simple re-paint today, turned into a 4 hr job re-building my shed door roof.
Went to slap some paint on the door and the roof and found it dry-rotted. When the wife's clothesline pole took a dive a few yrs ago, it musta hit the roof. Flashing was buckled and leaking, and of course i never noticed....
when i re-stood the pole back up i dumped 4 bags of concrete around it, but wife still managed to put some lean into it, so i also bolted it to the shed and cut off the dry-rotted top
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didn't take a before, but this was from 2 winters ago
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I've put newspapers in walls like a little time capsule. My other house I found 50s topless mags in the rafters .

72c20customcamper 11-15-2020 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by 57taskforce (Post 8836343)
It’s funny, I can tell your pretty detail oriented. Your probably like me, those little things drive you nuts but no one else will probably ever given it any further thought. I did a bunch of mud work on some of the walls in my my house late last summer into early October. There’s a few spots that drive me crazy after we got the walls painted, my wife couldn’t find them if I paid her $1,000 too.

This afternoon I made a couple of Green Chile apple pies with my little girl. She turns 6 this week. Crazy how time flies. Us New Mexicans(even adopted like my self) will put green Chile in anything:ito:

I let my daughter put the lattice weave on. I think she did a pretty good job. I really didn’t do much to help her. I actually enjoy baking quite a bit.

Yes she did . I like cooking not much of a Baker. And yes I'm detail orientated I've redone things because I didnt like a few little details

special-K 11-16-2020 07:22 AM

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I installed the thumblatches on the garage doors. Did some touch-up with the red paint. Only* thing left to do is garage door, slab, and run electric :lol:*. Probably more money there than the whole building. But electric is next. I have a conduit laid from the cellar, from when I did the concrete work outside the house.
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All the walkway stuff is done. Last patch of stone waiting for grass to grow

72c20customcamper 11-16-2020 08:54 AM

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Looks great Tim. I did my slab in the garage at my rental when I lived there . Even doing all the labor it was expensive . I ran the electric myself also here you can do electric without a license. But you need to pass a small exam to do plumbing. :crazy:

Steeveedee 11-16-2020 10:06 AM

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Looks great Tim. I did my slab in the garage at my rental when I lived there . Even doing all the labor it was expensive . I ran the electric myself also here you can do electric without a license. But you need to pass a small exam to do plumbing. :crazy:

Plumbing is easy, you only need to know two things- "you know what" flows downhill, and payday is Friday. Well, that, and keep your fingers out of your mouth when you're working. :D

72c20customcamper 11-16-2020 11:33 AM

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Plumbing is easy, you only need to know two things- "you know what" flows downhill, and payday is Friday. Well, that, and keep your fingers out of your mouth when you're working. :D

Fixing existing plumbing is no problem but anything new requires a test or a licensed plumber. I took it to put a new sink in my bar . Not a hard test at all but I said to the examiner (town building inspector) why they do it for plumbing and not for electricity and I added I never heard of anyone drowning doing pipes but have heard of people getting shocked doing electric. His response was I guess the plumbers union is stronger than the electricals

72c20customcamper 11-16-2020 04:24 PM

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Had to do some repairs to the roof on my rental. Last few storms caused shingle damage . To lazy to get out the big ladder

72c20customcamper 11-16-2020 07:22 PM

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Forgot the picture of the door. Have a call into jeld-wen . Door is dead nuts level but the window isnt . Dont know if I loosen the screws if I can adjust it . It's not much like .4 of a degree but it bothers me

Andy4639 11-16-2020 08:54 PM

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I bought this one for $1000.00. Going to some friends down at the beach. He is on Oxygen all the time so it's going be for him to ride around in the yard with his grand daughter.
I installed a 400amp Alltrax controller and ITS switch this past spring.

I'm doing the brakes on it now. Cables were froze up on it had to cut them out with my saw all. New cables ordered. Batteries were still wet but had no water in them. I hope I caught them in time to save them. There only 3 years old.
:chevy:

72c20customcamper 11-17-2020 06:15 PM

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Bath is moving along. Scraped of the old mastic and sealed the plywood , I'm installing radiant heat and it needs a 1/4 inch of mortar or self leveling underlayment I'm going with the self leveler. Have all the expansion joints in and sealed . Made the joints out of 1/2 inch foam board that's about an inch tall I'll just trim it flush to the underlayment and install my flooring . I'm using water proof laminate , if I was tiling I'd just put the heat mesh down and apply thinset.

special-K 11-17-2020 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper (Post 8836622)
Had to do some repairs to the roof on my rental. Last few storms caused shingle damage . To lazy to get out the big ladder

Probably anchored for that angle better than with using a ladder to the ground.
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Forgot the picture of the door. Have a call into jeld-wen . Door is dead nuts level but the window isnt . Dont know if I loosen the screws if I can adjust it . It's not much like .4 of a degree but it bothers me

I imagine that window is set in caulk, pretty permanent. Looks like a warranty issue for them.

72c20customcamper 11-17-2020 08:20 PM

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Probably anchored for that angle better than with using a ladder to the ground.

I imagine that window is set in caulk, pretty permanent. Looks like a warranty issue for them.

I like doing it that way just safer than having someone foot the ladder .

Thinking that may be the case . Probably give me a new door slab

72c20customcamper 11-18-2020 07:40 PM

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Heats in and leveler poured. The leveler says 16 hours to install flooring I'm going to wait till Friday or Saturday dont want any moisture under the laminate flooring

Getter-Done 11-18-2020 11:36 PM

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I bought this one for $1000.00. Going to some friends down at the beach. He is on Oxygen all the time so it's going be for him to ride around in the yard with his grand daughter.
I installed a 400amp Alltrax controller and ITS switch this past spring.

I'm doing the brakes on it now. Cables were froze up on it had to cut them out with my saw all. New cables ordered. Batteries were still wet but had no water in them. I hope I caught them in time to save them. There only 3 years old.
:chevy:

:metal:






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72c20customcamper 11-19-2020 07:55 PM

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Was going to mill some Hickory white and red oak today but yesterday the mills hydraulics stop working chased it down to a solenoid. Was hoping that one could be had locally ,no such luck. So it will have to wait so I laid the flooring down . Over 24 hours so the leveler should be dry .

Picture from yesterday gassing up the mill

Andy4639 11-19-2020 09:32 PM

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I finished up the cart today. New brake cables. The passenger side hub cost me 2 days and $75.00 for a used axle & hub. I had to cut & grind the old out. It's back on the ground though and ready to go. Batteries are holding a charge so far but I haven't rode it but just enough to make sure it ran good. :chevy:

72c20customcamper 11-22-2020 10:53 AM

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Installed two new shower heads yesterday . This morning I drilled out both of the water restrictors . Felt like I had to run around the stream to get wet . What's the sense of less water per minute when you have to take a much longer shower .

MAC71Cheyenne 11-22-2020 03:00 PM

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It's cold and raining so working on a hay trolley restoration, bottle of Crown, and figuring what is what in the parts pile to share with everyone....

72c20customcamper 11-22-2020 08:44 PM

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Got some more wood . It’s all about counterbalance

1976gmc20 11-24-2020 12:13 AM

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I haven't done a damn thing lately except for the daily chores. It feels good :)

special-K 11-24-2020 06:48 AM

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Got some more wood . It’s all about counterbalance

Yeah but you end up hauling twice as much wood that way. Oh wait, that's a good thing. Nevermind
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I haven't done a damn thing lately except for the daily chores. It feels good :)

Got pictures? :lol:

1976gmc20 11-24-2020 03:41 PM

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Got pictures? :lol:

Taking pictures isn't one of my daily chores :mm:


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