I’ve seen this pitcher before, and I commented on it, but don’t know what that comment was.
So I’ll make a new one.
There’s a “power pole” but no wire. Underground? shrug
The roof seems newish, but yet the sides seems dilapidatedish.
How bout this:
Staple #30 felt paper all over the entire outside.
Then, nail galv metal lathe over the whole thing.
Then, spraycrete 6″ of thermo-stucco over all that.
Ta-Da! Brand new exterior and will last longer than the pyramids!
That barn looks to be about 40′ long x about 32′ the other way, with a 16′ high eave height, and a full length wing unit 16′ wide along the far side. So roughly about 1920 square feet of floor space. Install a mezzanine in the tall part and increase the floor area to about 3200 s.f.
Now you’re talkin’.
How about one of them barndominiums that have become stylish of late?
4 suites on the 2nd floor and 6 on the 1st floor. Rent them at $300 a day and rake in about a mil a year. Hire some illegals under the table to deal with all the maintenance stuff nobody else wants to – nasty sheets, clogged shitters, hurl in the showers, etc. etc. wink wink
Maybe throw up another wing unit along the near side to house a crackerbarrel like atmosphere eatery. renters gotta eat, crackerbarrel has to serve. deep fried possom flanks, smoked-stuffed corn muffins, refried cranberry ice cream. yeah man
Oh yeah, what are these renters gonna do while stayin there?
Pig Rodeo! Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Airbrush the pigs to look like Indy cars and each renter gets their own pig to race and whoever wins the race gets 1/2 off their rent bill and as many possom flanks as they can eat at one sitting. Man, they’ll be lined up down the road.
Snakepit KansasAugust 2, 2024, 4:34 PM
Three section window goes in tomorrow by me, son and a good friend. Scaffolding was strong enough for three guys on it and the weight of the old window. The concrete siding hid all the water damage. Pulled off all the concrete siding around that extended window and cut out all the wet plywood. Took a sawsall and cut the framing below the window all the way down to the floor. Pulled out the old insulation. Took that som-bitch window, drywall and wood scrap to the dump this morning. $27. Reframed the section between the floor and bottom of the window. New 1/2″ plywood facing and will wrap it with moisture barrier. New concrete siding will have to wait until next week. I will skip new drywall on the inside. After insulation I will finish out the recessed wall in oak and make it match the 3/4″ oak flooring. New cedar trim on the outside corners. Then paint. Anxious to complete this.
ghostsniperAugust 2, 2024, 5:50 PM
“Anxious to complete this.”
==================
I guess so, been going on for awhile.
Meeting with a dood tomorrow about maybe taking on some of his overflow deck work.
I likes makin sum cash deals – keep the greasy assed criminals out of it.
Snakepit KansasAugust 4, 2024, 5:28 AM
Certainly satisfying to build something and do it right. I built scaffolding and have gone almost all the way across the back of the house replacing cedar trim, caulking and painting. I am near the norther most part of the house and the window & wood repair has been the largest challenge. Window is now installed. Anxiety is now dialed down. With my ragular job, liquor store job, gun range job and mowing with my two kids on their job, there is not excess time to finish the back of the house. I usually work on it early mornings.
Less anxiety helping work on someone else’s project than my own. Kind of like tracking a wounded deer. Even with a double lung shot a deer can go more than 100 yards. Good help is always appreciated.
I would love to see the deck work you will complete. I am sure it will be even better than a skilled contractor’s efforts.
AnneAugust 3, 2024, 9:50 AM
hmmm . . .
I went to the orange store yesterday to find DH a good drill. It’s our anniversary next week and I am tired of watching him struggle with that dang little 1/4″ drill he’s got!
Wham, bang. I walked in at the contractors door and right there on a wagon was a BIG ONE OF A KIND SPECIAL! Dang–it was beautiful marked down from $1200 to $600. It was a custom designed double door with those little glas squares of glass–an indoor double door.
I have been trying to get DH to repair the old cabin for years now. It hasn’t happened, but this year I have started doing it myself in small ways. I am ripping out the kitchen counters and cabinets–my little battery-driven hacksaw is working well for me. If I had my wishes I would rearrange the floor plan and cut an opening between what is currently the kitchen and the bedroom. Of course, right now there is a wall between the two, but . . . but, wouldn’t it be possible to cut a whole in that wall, and make that $600 special work like a dream? Just sayin 😉
ghostsniperAugust 3, 2024, 10:47 AM
Everything’s possible.
I have about 3-4 drills and a drill press and the one I use the most, over the past 25+ years I have owned it, is my Ryobi 3/8″ cordless VSR 18v. The old style blue one. My oldest drill is a Skill 3/8″ VSR corded that I bought in 1983.
AnneAugust 3, 2024, 12:42 PM
Are you saying that you think a 3/8 is good enough for around the house including decking and 2″boards for planter boxes?
ghostsniperAugust 3, 2024, 1:31 PM
First off, bigger is always better. 🙂
I’ve built many thousands of square feets of decks with (2) 3/8″ drills, one for drilling 1/8″ holes and another for installing 3″ long torx head deck screws.
ALWAYS drill the holes first before installing deck screws – it prevents the deck boards from splitting later.
ALWAYS drill the holes at least 1″ from the board, slightly angled toward the floor joist below. Closer than 1″ and it’s likely the deck screw will split the boards.
Unless the installer is using the $300+ Senco deck screw driver, that is used while standing upright, the installer will most likely be on his knees. Kneepads are mandatory and I don’t recommend the gell filled type. The gell type are OK if you are going to stay in one position for a long time. If you need to move around, the gell type will work against you in that you will not be as responsive when you try to move. The gel tends to “give” as you try to move and you use more energy trying to overcome the “give”.
Nor do I recommend the kind of kneepads with hard rubber on them because you will slide all over the place. As far as I’m concerned, for this application the cheap cloth ones with velcro straps are the ticket.
AnneAugust 3, 2024, 3:38 PM
Do you think the 1/2″ would be that much heavier to make it unnecessary for at home work? I can find a good price on 1/2″ drills but not so much on 3/8″ drills.
ghostsniperAugust 3, 2024, 5:15 PM
Like I said, Bigger is always better! 🙂
ghostsniperAugust 3, 2024, 6:58 PM
It seems like time to trot this one out again…
“Middle class America is no less violent than any other people. They seem passive because they’re results oriented. They rise not out of blood frenzy but to solve the otherwise insoluble. Their methods of choice are good will, cooperation, forbearance, negotiation and finally, appeasement, roughly in that order. Only when these fail to end the abuse do they revert to blowback. And they do so irretrievably. Once the course is set and the outcome defined, doubt is put aside. The middle class is known, condemned actually, for carrying out violence with the efficiency of an industrial project where bloody destruction at any scale is not only in play, it’s a metric. Remorse is left for the next generation, they’ll have the leisure for it. We’d like to believe this is merely dark speculation. History says it isn’t.”
– Ol’ Remus, The Woodpile Report
AnneAugust 4, 2024, 9:50 AM
We have lost someone very special!
ghostsniperAugust 4, 2024, 2:01 PM
Sitting here idly thinking about employees that complain about “equal pay”.
How do employees know if another employee is earning more money than they are?
Is it common knowledge these days that all employees automatically are told how much money all employees are paid?
If so, what is the reason for doing that?
I haven’t been an employee for almost 40 years so I’m out of that loop.
When I had employees none of them were told by me how much I was paying anyone else as it was none of their business and I never once heard any complaints in that regard.
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Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
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Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
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Leave it all for a while
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And your worries behind
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Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
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Until I see
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Until I see
My shining light
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Until I see
My shining light
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Until I see
My shining light
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I’ve seen this pitcher before, and I commented on it, but don’t know what that comment was.
So I’ll make a new one.
There’s a “power pole” but no wire. Underground? shrug
The roof seems newish, but yet the sides seems dilapidatedish.
How bout this:
Staple #30 felt paper all over the entire outside.
Then, nail galv metal lathe over the whole thing.
Then, spraycrete 6″ of thermo-stucco over all that.
Ta-Da! Brand new exterior and will last longer than the pyramids!
That barn looks to be about 40′ long x about 32′ the other way, with a 16′ high eave height, and a full length wing unit 16′ wide along the far side. So roughly about 1920 square feet of floor space. Install a mezzanine in the tall part and increase the floor area to about 3200 s.f.
Now you’re talkin’.
How about one of them barndominiums that have become stylish of late?
4 suites on the 2nd floor and 6 on the 1st floor. Rent them at $300 a day and rake in about a mil a year. Hire some illegals under the table to deal with all the maintenance stuff nobody else wants to – nasty sheets, clogged shitters, hurl in the showers, etc. etc. wink wink
Maybe throw up another wing unit along the near side to house a crackerbarrel like atmosphere eatery. renters gotta eat, crackerbarrel has to serve. deep fried possom flanks, smoked-stuffed corn muffins, refried cranberry ice cream. yeah man
Oh yeah, what are these renters gonna do while stayin there?
Pig Rodeo! Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Airbrush the pigs to look like Indy cars and each renter gets their own pig to race and whoever wins the race gets 1/2 off their rent bill and as many possom flanks as they can eat at one sitting. Man, they’ll be lined up down the road.
Three section window goes in tomorrow by me, son and a good friend. Scaffolding was strong enough for three guys on it and the weight of the old window. The concrete siding hid all the water damage. Pulled off all the concrete siding around that extended window and cut out all the wet plywood. Took a sawsall and cut the framing below the window all the way down to the floor. Pulled out the old insulation. Took that som-bitch window, drywall and wood scrap to the dump this morning. $27. Reframed the section between the floor and bottom of the window. New 1/2″ plywood facing and will wrap it with moisture barrier. New concrete siding will have to wait until next week. I will skip new drywall on the inside. After insulation I will finish out the recessed wall in oak and make it match the 3/4″ oak flooring. New cedar trim on the outside corners. Then paint. Anxious to complete this.
“Anxious to complete this.”
==================
I guess so, been going on for awhile.
Meeting with a dood tomorrow about maybe taking on some of his overflow deck work.
I likes makin sum cash deals – keep the greasy assed criminals out of it.
Certainly satisfying to build something and do it right. I built scaffolding and have gone almost all the way across the back of the house replacing cedar trim, caulking and painting. I am near the norther most part of the house and the window & wood repair has been the largest challenge. Window is now installed. Anxiety is now dialed down. With my ragular job, liquor store job, gun range job and mowing with my two kids on their job, there is not excess time to finish the back of the house. I usually work on it early mornings.
Less anxiety helping work on someone else’s project than my own. Kind of like tracking a wounded deer. Even with a double lung shot a deer can go more than 100 yards. Good help is always appreciated.
I would love to see the deck work you will complete. I am sure it will be even better than a skilled contractor’s efforts.
hmmm . . .
I went to the orange store yesterday to find DH a good drill. It’s our anniversary next week and I am tired of watching him struggle with that dang little 1/4″ drill he’s got!
Wham, bang. I walked in at the contractors door and right there on a wagon was a BIG ONE OF A KIND SPECIAL! Dang–it was beautiful marked down from $1200 to $600. It was a custom designed double door with those little glas squares of glass–an indoor double door.
I have been trying to get DH to repair the old cabin for years now. It hasn’t happened, but this year I have started doing it myself in small ways. I am ripping out the kitchen counters and cabinets–my little battery-driven hacksaw is working well for me. If I had my wishes I would rearrange the floor plan and cut an opening between what is currently the kitchen and the bedroom. Of course, right now there is a wall between the two, but . . . but, wouldn’t it be possible to cut a whole in that wall, and make that $600 special work like a dream? Just sayin 😉
Everything’s possible.
I have about 3-4 drills and a drill press and the one I use the most, over the past 25+ years I have owned it, is my Ryobi 3/8″ cordless VSR 18v. The old style blue one. My oldest drill is a Skill 3/8″ VSR corded that I bought in 1983.
Are you saying that you think a 3/8 is good enough for around the house including decking and 2″boards for planter boxes?
First off, bigger is always better. 🙂
I’ve built many thousands of square feets of decks with (2) 3/8″ drills, one for drilling 1/8″ holes and another for installing 3″ long torx head deck screws.
ALWAYS drill the holes first before installing deck screws – it prevents the deck boards from splitting later.
ALWAYS drill the holes at least 1″ from the board, slightly angled toward the floor joist below. Closer than 1″ and it’s likely the deck screw will split the boards.
Unless the installer is using the $300+ Senco deck screw driver, that is used while standing upright, the installer will most likely be on his knees. Kneepads are mandatory and I don’t recommend the gell filled type. The gell type are OK if you are going to stay in one position for a long time. If you need to move around, the gell type will work against you in that you will not be as responsive when you try to move. The gel tends to “give” as you try to move and you use more energy trying to overcome the “give”.
Nor do I recommend the kind of kneepads with hard rubber on them because you will slide all over the place. As far as I’m concerned, for this application the cheap cloth ones with velcro straps are the ticket.
Do you think the 1/2″ would be that much heavier to make it unnecessary for at home work? I can find a good price on 1/2″ drills but not so much on 3/8″ drills.
Like I said, Bigger is always better! 🙂
It seems like time to trot this one out again…
“Middle class America is no less violent than any other people. They seem passive because they’re results oriented. They rise not out of blood frenzy but to solve the otherwise insoluble. Their methods of choice are good will, cooperation, forbearance, negotiation and finally, appeasement, roughly in that order. Only when these fail to end the abuse do they revert to blowback. And they do so irretrievably. Once the course is set and the outcome defined, doubt is put aside. The middle class is known, condemned actually, for carrying out violence with the efficiency of an industrial project where bloody destruction at any scale is not only in play, it’s a metric. Remorse is left for the next generation, they’ll have the leisure for it. We’d like to believe this is merely dark speculation. History says it isn’t.”
– Ol’ Remus, The Woodpile Report
We have lost someone very special!
Sitting here idly thinking about employees that complain about “equal pay”.
How do employees know if another employee is earning more money than they are?
Is it common knowledge these days that all employees automatically are told how much money all employees are paid?
If so, what is the reason for doing that?
I haven’t been an employee for almost 40 years so I’m out of that loop.
When I had employees none of them were told by me how much I was paying anyone else as it was none of their business and I never once heard any complaints in that regard.