Popular Post Mick S Posted July 25, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 Vacuumed ~150 gallons of water out of my shop after an afternoon downpour. Got.To.Fix.The.French.Drains. I'm too old for that kind of work. Wine helps. 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardA Posted July 25, 2019 Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 Excellent choices. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeslayer Posted July 25, 2019 Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 Wine helps everything Mick, you just have to fix that French drain first I should talk, I’ve been planning to dig a dry sump for the drain in the garage for 2 years, maybe this year 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted July 25, 2019 Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 31 minutes ago, Mick S said: Vacuumed ~150 gallons of water out of my shop after an afternoon downpour. Got.To.Fix.The.French.Drains. I'm too old for that kind of work. Wine helps. I hope you didn’t loose anything except time? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted July 25, 2019 Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 I started setting piers for a deck expansion. Sorry, no pics yet. You've all seen dirt before, anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardA Posted July 25, 2019 Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 What color is the dirt? I may not have seen that color. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mick S Posted July 25, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 7 minutes ago, K Cooper said: I hope you didn’t loose anything except time? And maybe a few brain cells by tomorrow morning... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted July 25, 2019 Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 6 minutes ago, RichardA said: What color is the dirt? I may not have seen that color. Possibly not. Its amazing how different the soil is on your side of the river. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeslayer Posted July 25, 2019 Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 14 minutes ago, RichardA said: What color is the dirt? I may not have seen that color. I was stationed in Georgia for a while in the Army, red dirt and fire ants, oh and lots of pine trees 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted July 25, 2019 Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 2 hours ago, Mick S said: Vacuumed ~150 gallons of water out of my shop after an afternoon downpour. Got.To.Fix.The.French.Drains. I'm too old for that kind of work. Wine helps. Hopefully nothing was damaged, man that's a lot of rain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legenddc Posted July 25, 2019 Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 Finally finished up the last piece of our desktop and installed it last night. Should be done with the office now and onto making my shop functional. Pics to follow once we get it cleaned up enough to take pictures where you can see the desk... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post treeslayer Posted July 25, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 Took a break from the lamps to make these for wife and kids, I put Watco on the walnut shingles, my question is if I put Watco on the cedar part will the birds care or should I leave it as is, thanks guys 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardA Posted July 25, 2019 Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 Let nature take it's course. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Beasley Posted July 25, 2019 Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 Agreed, cedar is naturally weather resistant and birds dont like smelly homes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom King Posted July 26, 2019 Report Share Posted July 26, 2019 Nothing unusual today. Laid some more bricks, and stones on the 1798 chimney. Figured out a breakaway using soft, low fired bricks to hold the concrete back, but allow the chimney to be jacked independent of the foundation. Have to leave that opening between the bricks on top of the stone for the concrete truck chute, but I decided to close it up some from what I did yesterday. Burned an abandoned (for this year) Osprey nest off the top of a 43 foot tall 1828 chimney, while we were waiting for go from insurance company. Started reassembling the porch on a spec house I built in 1991 that had taken a direct hit by a small tornado last week. Made series of different length T-posts, 2x4 guides, aluminum floor jack, and leap frogged the t-posts on the jack with 10" of lift, and sawhorses. First picture of setup taken at 1:21, and first beam in place at 1:40. Posts were up soon after. Still have to do a bunch of jacking, clamping, and tapping to get everything exactly back in place, but roof now supported like it should be. Cut grass until dark at home-2 acre field expecting visitors with RV's this weekend, and the head of our cove-too dark to take pictures. Here are some pictures from earlier today. Still waiting for some to come in, but I'm going to take a shower. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted July 26, 2019 Report Share Posted July 26, 2019 I don't think your birds will like those houses you should send them up here my birds aren't picky. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J Posted July 27, 2019 Report Share Posted July 27, 2019 I cleaned out my DC filter. Chestnut was sending me psychic guilt waves so I finally had to do it . What an unholy mess, I can't wait to have to do it again. And there's no truly effective method that I found. Once the barrel was dismounted, and just for the sake of arguement, I tried compressed air from outside to in. At a distance of 2 inches and 40 psi a little puff of sawdust came off the inner surface. This was the least effective method I tried. Once outside I stood the barrel up and gave the sides a brisk open palm tap and this dislodged a lot of dust, but nothing like all of it. I think you'd have to treat this like a log drum--one you didn't want to use again. Then I went for the leaf blower and blew out the inside. Dust storm, but still plenty of dust deep in the filter pleats. So i tried vacuuming the pleats with the brush tool, but this only worked where the brush bristles would reach which was at most half way down the pleats. I tried a soft brush on the pleats, but with no better results Tried the leaf blower on the outside blowing in. Not very effective. Next I tried rubbing the pleats with my hand mimicking those flappers you see on some machines. This yielded a lot of dust from the crevices, but it still seemed an endless supply. Maybe combine this with the leaf blower some how. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom King Posted July 27, 2019 Report Share Posted July 27, 2019 https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200665751_200665751?cm_mmc=Google-pla&utm_source=Google_PLA&utm_medium=Air Tools %2B Compressors > Air Tools %2B Accessories&utm_campaign=Grip&utm_content=45972&gclid=CjwKCAjw7O_pBRA3EiwA_lmtflRXL0ZwtYoAkGTEwdEDusBvXpJIr-Db59OeNHYNj5liCp2da5G-PhoCMc8QAvD_BwE and a day with about a 20 knot wind. A lot of jobs depend on the strength, and direction of the wind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted July 27, 2019 Report Share Posted July 27, 2019 I spent the morning de-spiderifying my lumber stash in the garage. A lot of stuff hides between the boards.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Beasley Posted July 28, 2019 Report Share Posted July 28, 2019 I spent most of the day working on replacing the flush valve in our master bath toilet, then starting to paint said bathroom before the tank is mounted to get the wall behind it painted. I got about half the bathroom painted before I ran out of steam. Dont help that my bad knee is misbehaving miserably making it hard to walk. At least the toilet flushes properly now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chestnut Posted July 28, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted July 28, 2019 My dad brought some redwood boards from his old deck. He wanted the rotten part resawn off and 2 boards edge glued together for a project he is tackling. Got to spend some shop time with him it was awesome. We allocated 2 days and got done in 3 hours. So fishing we went. 17" large mouth bass got caught by accident. Slapped together a fishing rod holder and a camp chair holder. It's amazing how much more i get done with help. My dad ia 63 and he makes me look lazy and slow. Yes this was all one day..... And now time for bed 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted July 28, 2019 Report Share Posted July 28, 2019 Dad’s are cool, at least mine was and I hope I am. Enjoy the moments! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom King Posted July 28, 2019 Report Share Posted July 28, 2019 Sounds like your Dad does pretty good for a young guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted July 28, 2019 Report Share Posted July 28, 2019 13 hours ago, K Cooper said: Dad’s are cool, at least mine was and I hope I am. Enjoy the moments! Ditto! There are many days when I am in the shop that I wish my dad was still there with me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llama Posted July 28, 2019 Report Share Posted July 28, 2019 Today I am thinking of where I should post my project journals. One one hand, some people would consider them to be "advanced" on the other it's just a table... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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