What did you do today not on your truck...

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

Third round? Yuck. I went 3 rounds when I sold my place in Claremont. I think the "buyers' were still looking and just wanted to lock in my place in case they didn't find another. They'd write a check but it was refundable so they had nothing to lose. Just a waste of my time and patience.

When we sold our house in San Dimas my wife had inherited it. Escrow wanted the death certificate of her stepfather. And a copy of the will.(sigh)
The guy has been dead for 10 years. She’s owned it for 10 years. Paid the taxes for 10 years. It’s in her name. Are you kidding me?

Nope. They need the paperwork or the deal falls through. What a bunch of
She always makes fun of me for using my old filing cabinet when I can just file things on the computer. She calls me a dinosaur and things like that. But when she looked for the documents. Guess what? They weren’t there. Everything else was but not them.

So. This old dinosaur went to his outdated obsolete dusty file cabinet and mercy me what did I find. That’s right. Somebody with their old antiquated ways just saved the day.

That’s why I hate escrow. When she sent the documents they said that they didn’t need them after all.
Thank you sir may I have another.

Let me know if you camp out. I'll bring the marshmallows and weenies... and a couple shotguns. We can tell scary stories.

Shotguns are kind of lumpy to sleep on, right? It's carpeted and I have a Thermarest camping foam pad that self inflates. That thing saved my back on many back packing outings with the Scouts, believe me.

Shotguns would be the firearm of choice; load them up with rock salt. There's a stove but no fridge or anything else. No internet, but if I have to stay there, I'd order it up. It is move-in ready. Just make sure those hot dogs are fresh.

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by Steeveedee

Shotguns would be the firearm of choice; load them up with rock salt. There's a stove but no fridge or anything else. No internet, but if I have to stay there, I'd order it up. It is move-in ready. Just make sure those hot dogs are fresh.

The trouble with a shotgun is that you might have to do some drywall work again.

3 days old is still fresh. Right?

[Boog]

It's still fresh 'till it isn't right?

[special-K]

what I did on Sunday was run out to the rural Ace Hardware for some Sakrete. Paul, a member from this site who doesn't 'attend' these days, is a manager there and was working that day. We started off catching up, him telling me plans for his '72 K/20 that has been sitting. We were rudely interrupted () my a customer who needed lumber. The guy had overheard some of our conversation and aske Paul what he had. Then he talked about the '68 he had, body-dropped patina shop truck, and showed us pictures. I said something about you get three random guys in a hardware store and they all have 67-72s to bring them together. Pretty cool!

Also, Paul is good with the things I am not, computers and dumb phones (some say smart). He helped my with a computer I had one time. I was showing him pictures of my "Barn Move" project, him holding the phone, and he saw I had no arrow to skip back out of there. I told him it's the same when I view a picture in a text, I get stuck there, have to go to my contacts, and select 'text' to get back to the message. Just last week I had T-Mobile do a factory reset and there were new things that were hanging me up. In just a few minutes he had me all fixed up so my phone is now somewhat user friendly, not as dumb as it was .

[Palf70Step]

.357 does some wall damage too, not that I would know that.

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

The trouble with a shotgun is that you might have to do some drywall work again.

3 days old is still fresh. Right?

I have mud, tape and paint left over from all the fixing up we'd done. Probably have to put in new carpet, though. Maybe save the old hot dogs and feed them to the squatters...and them lock them out.

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by Steeveedee

Maybe save the old hot dogs and feed them to the squatters...and them lock them out.

They'd probably just drop a deuce on your front porch.

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

They'd probably just drop a deuce on your front porch.

Is it called a deuce if it is projectile defecation?

[tutone]

Got my cuts made on my "blown over oak tree" 54 feet of 22" plus logs.
3-12s a 10 and an 8. It knocked over another big red oak 22" plus. Got a 10 and an 8 out of it. We are gonna pull em out with a good size tractor if it will ever stop raining. Drove a lot of wedges and it don't take near as long to give out handling a saw as it used to.

[LS short box]

Spent 4 hours block sanding the doors and trunk lid of a 37 Packard convertible. First skim coat. Thursday we spray "poly" filler and more more block sanding.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by tutone

Got my cuts made on my "blown over oak tree" 54 feet of 22" plus logs.
3-12s a 10 and an 8. It knocked over another big red oak 22" plus. Got a 10 and an 8 out of it. We are gonna pull em out with a good size tractor if it will ever stop raining. Drove a lot of wedges and it don't take near as long to give out handling a saw as it used to.

Mo' money

Originally Posted by LS short box

Spent 4 hours block sanding the doors and trunk lid of a 37 Packard convertible. First skim coat. Thursday we spray "poly" filler and more more block sanding.

Are you glad it's a part time job? I'm sure seeing the results will be gratifying.

I sanded a little today myself. A homeowner wanted me to make her a shelf for over the sink in her tiny under the steps bathroom. I scrounged up the materials from under a lean-to off of her barn. Rags to riches. That wood was so filthy I had to scrub it up first. I put it by a heater to get it good and dry. Got the pieces made up, filled the imperfections, sanded, and assembled it. It gets painted white, then installed tomorrow

[tutone]

Cool shelf. I used to love wood working. Back when we built houses on the side , I loved the framing and the finish work. Painting, drywall, and electrical was tedious. I worked with a guy that made wooden pen and pencil sets. I bought a couple of sets through the years. My son got a pallet in at his workplace once from India. It was some of the darkest exotic wood you have ever seen. He made us each a set out of that wood. Stuff like that interests me.

[special-K]

I never thought of how there'd be woods from around the world coming here as pallets. I am all about the reuse/salvage thing these days. I keep small pieces of the more interesting lumber to make smaller things from. Heck, I even make special mouldings out of scrap framing limber, just crappy white pine. I'll get a picture of where I dug this wood out from. The shelf itself was cut off a 16' length of window sill stock, the piece between the brackets was a primed (and weathered) piece of clear Douglas Fir true 5/4" with a beveled rip for something exterior, and the brackets came from my scrap stash, 3/4" x 3" clear cedar left over from something. No money what so ever into materials and it's all good stuff. I used the cedar for being clear and softer for ease of shaping, being so small. We figured 23"L x 4"W would do it. The sink is a tiny roundy cool porcelain cast iron wall-hanger like you'd see in a service station bathroom. She didn't want people setting things on the back ledge (for some reason). I'll get a pictures once painted and hung. Glad you liked it

[tutone]

Originally Posted by special-K

I never thought of how there'd be woods from around the world coming here as pallets. I am all about the reuse/salvage thing these days. I keep small pieces of the more interesting lumber to make smaller things from. Heck, I even make special mouldings out of scrap framing limber, just crappy white pine. I'll get a picture of where I dug this wood out from. The shelf itself was cut off a 16' length of window sill stock, the piece between the brackets was a primed (and weathered) piece of clear Douglas Fir true 5/4" with a beveled rip for something exterior, and the brackets came from my scrap stash, 3/4" x 3" clear cedar left over from something. No money what so ever into materials and it's all good stuff. I used the cedar for being clear and softer for ease of shaping, being so small. We figured 23"L x 4"W would do it. The sink is a tiny roundy cool porcelain cast iron wall-hanger like you'd see in a service station bathroom. She didn't want people setting things on the back ledge (for some reason). I'll get a pictures once painted and hung. Glad you liked it

Yeah, I got in the habit of looking for wood sources 30 years ago at the paper mill. We would get parts from all over the world. I had a boss that was a guitar builder, so we were always on the lookout for spruce. I would come up with some of that and lots of maple. Here are the pens made from the wood from India. I cant get the camera to really focus on the grain.

[Steeveedee]

Went over to the rental house for a daily check. Turns out that the prospective buyer was there with a contractor, taking measurements. The realtor left (which I understand is allowed) them alone with the house, but didn't close the lock box back up, so the keys were available to them. They had enough time to make copies if they so desired, since I didn't think at that time to close the box back up. The realtor was supposed to come back and lock up. The only reason I can think of for the realtor to come back is because the keys shouldn't be available to prospective buyers. I'll have to ask my wife and our realtor that question. I went back over and the place was locked up, but that doesn't mean that the keys haven't been copied. Given that it took us 9 months to evict the non-paying tenants, I'm concerned. I may just go over and change the locks tomorrow, just to be less concerned. $40 well spent, and I can use new locks over here when it's all said and done.

One of my concerns is that when I went into the back yard ( the first time) to go into the garage, the prospective buyer was all smiles, but the contractor looked like someone who had just been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. He was also keeping his face turned to the side while the prospective buyer and I were taking. Not a good sign.

[kwmech]

Woke up to a project this morning on my driveway leading to the highway, almost took out the mailboxes. boxes just got brushed by light branches. Pics were taken about an hour after starting a brush pile

[tutone]

Glad nobody was hurt. That is a "Mossy Oak"

[special-K]

That isn't an Alder, is it? If it is I didn't know they got that big.

I took a picture of where I went shopping for the wood to make that little shelf


Here is that tiny sink the shelf will be hung above


That bathroom is tiny, too, built under the stairs


This is a part of the kitchen counter I built for her 5 or more years ago. It's from a white oak that was 250 years old when cut and milled. It came from a 250 year old building. so the tree started growing 500 years ago

[FleetsidePaul]

Bought a nice leather couch and loveseat on FB. Good deal and the guy literally lives across the street from me.

I only have one worry about having leather couches. Some of you may remember my last leather couch. Duke didn't care for it.

[Stocker]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

Some of you may remember my last leather couch. Duke didn't care for it.

On the contrary, Duke appeared to have liked it. A lot. Loved it to death, in fact.

Seriously Paul, steak sauce mixed with gravy is not a recommended leather conditioner!

[Boog]

^^^^

[dave6672]

Originally Posted by special-K

This is a part of the kitchen counter I built for her 5 or more years ago. It's from a white oak that was 250 years old when cut and milled. It came from a 250 year old building. so the tree started growing 500 years ago

Love the counter top, Tim.

[Rich84]

500 Year old wood is pretty cool.

[tutone]

Digging the 500 year old wood countertop too. That reminds me of a tree on the edge of Ky lake a couple of bays down from the Aurora bridge. It was a humongus red oak about 7 or 8 feet in diameter. When they filled the lake in the 1940s, it came close to being flooded. There were many local stories and eve a writeup or two in the paper about it. There are several pictures floating around from the late 1800s and it was huge then.
As far as I know, it is still there. It was guessed to be a 1700s tree.

[kwmech]

Originally Posted by tutone

Glad nobody was hurt. That is a "Mossy Oak"

Yeah, sits in the shade quite a bit on the north side of the hill. Some of it is about 2'' thick. Gotta brush the chain saw blade back and forth a couple of times to find the trunk. What was kinda funny is that there were tire tracks in the snow under the tree. So it fell sometime in the early morning after somebody in the neighborhood went to work. Couple pics after about 5-6 hours of work