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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
I got that summer kitchen closed-in and free-standing, and beginning on the cornice. All cleaned up for the big party today, Ocmoberfest! This guy's nickname is Mo. People began arriving yesterday, so I shut down early and joined them.
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Since the first of the year I have two friends both diagnosed with terminal cancer, both given 3-5 years. But I am fortunate that both are close enough to visit often. It's just hard knowing these are their best days now and the nature of visits will change.
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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
Looking good Tim .
Brought down the last load of wood . Three loads and didn’t even make a dent in my woodpile . That a 6x14 trailer
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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
Got some work done today on footings for new house.
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That's doing a whole lot not on your truck. Congratulations on building a new house
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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
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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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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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
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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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
I tell you, the best wood is salvage
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Well over the weekend
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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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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
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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I got nothing on that, unless maybe something damaged the tree and it just didn't "heal" right?
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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
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
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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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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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Thank you.
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