Just sharing an interesting job i did a few weeks back is all …When this discussion shows , i will post some pics in the discussion.
its a new roof we put on an American embassy staff house .
otherwise please relate or show any project you might have done lately . Work related or leisure. Even a sketch or painting or something you cooked .. they’re all creative / projects.
thanks 🙂
Ahhhhhh projects. I miss the project days.
While I was a contractor for years, and a landlord for decades, the project were from the houses I’ve flipped.
Taking a 1924 Craftsman style home, and bringing it back to original glory was the best.
I’m between fortunes,…LOL, and should have the money to be flipping houses again in two years.
Impressive and great thread!
My big project last weekend was putting the veggie garden to bed for the summer. I picked what was left and covered a small section to extend the season for a few more days or weeks.
Last of the summer edible flowers and herbs.
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Covering part of the garden to protect it from freezing.
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Those are pretty.
You are very creative. I’d love to have them too.
beautiful!!
I recently completed a project on research into moral judgment. I’d share an image, but it might not pass the censors.
Wow Timmy that is an impressive job. I have seen these roofs a few times they are very labor intensive. That type of roof is very common here where I live.
Bookmarked. Thanks for the invite
Thank you for joining, Mina.
My wife and I just finished building a front porch. Snow build-up on the sheet metal roof in winter, combined with periodic, unpredictable winter warm spells and rainfalls, has led to the destruction of two prior porches over the past century (due to icy avalanches cascading onto their roofs with tons of pressure), so I designed this one to outlast the house. My wife and I put in together the cement pillar foundations and the overall structural framing, but the creeping deficits of aging –we’re both in our 70s– meant we had to hire a younger handyman to put on the roof (tongue and groove wood overlaid with sheet metal.)
Looking forward to a clean and safe entrance this winter.
Excellent!!
I only wish that you and your bride were young enough to have not required the assistance of a handyman.
🙂
We wish that too!
Our time here sure feels more precious — our lost vigor and healthiness too — as we age. This was a really good conclusion to Chris Hedges’ most recent essay on Truthdig today.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/saying-goodbye-to-sam/
Beautiful!
Yeah. Fine writing.
Hi Mensch great to see you and thanks for sharing that. Hedges is a brilliant writer.
Hi eri.
Thanks for the reply.
I always feel glad when you & I cross paths!!
🙂
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I need to redo my front porch as well and I have no idea how to do it. I’m hoping to hire someone to help. I’m super impressed you and your wife did this. I’m inspired.
We did a lot of thinking about what we wanted; and we walked about our neighborhood examining various porches. Key was securing it to the concrete lintel above our doorway –securing it with bolts into the concrete, using a specialized concrete drill and expandable fasteners the bolts went into. We needed this because of the sheer ice and snow load that barreled down from the existing house roof. We used four cedar six by sixes fastened to 30 inch high concrete pillars as uprights, and four by four cedars for the rest of the framing. Our local Home Depots and Home Hardwares had specialists who could demonstrate at the stores how the different elements were to be fastened. We coated the bottoms of the four pillars with an anti-fungal where they met the concrete fasteners. As for the rafters, we used standard 2 by 4s cut for the pitch of the roof.
We chose spruce tongue and groove for the roof itself, adding both strength and stability, and we had the metal roofing atop this cut to size and colored to match the metal roofing of the house itself.
We used a cedar stain to blend non-cedar rafters with the cedar which was clear stained.
Building a new porch is challenging and not quite the same as repairing an older one. (I also used youtube a lot to get a feel for each step before talking with specialists at the stores OR buying anything.)
Overall, the handyman was our greatest expenditure … about $2000. The cedar and tongue and groove added another thousand (including the $300 for the sheet metal. Fasteners, screws, bolts, et cetera came in at about $100.
Overall, then, it cost $3100.
This was between $5000 to $6000 below contractor estimates if we provided the materials.
What’s now left for us to complete are cedar boxes around the pillar themselves, more for looks than anything else. Most of that can be done indoors and put on when the weather permits.
Good luck to you!
I am about to begin an overhaul on a chiller. Impeller is eroded and thrust bearing is grinding. I will try to upload some pictures when it is all a part. Still setting up the rigging while recovering 2402 lbs of refrigerant. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e741cf7acf6e184b3dc7b6eda0596ded6df118b6cf2d5ab09f729bef599e4130.jpg
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Wow….that is huge.
Will look forward to see the next picture and meanwhile….good luck with your project.
I made an overhead tether out of steel cable for my pitbull. He figured out he could jump the fence. I took 50 feet of 3/8 inch steel cable and but it between the house and a tree. Then I clipped a 12 ft down lead with dog clips on it that goes to the ground. He can wander about 50X24 and not get tangled up because it’s all off the ground. It has a stop on the overhead cable to keep him off the tree. I did that by tying a knot in the cable and putting a washer on it.
I bet he’s cute !! Now no worry he’s cruising the town.
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He is incredibly cute. He is mischief on wheels, but he is a dear animal. I think he could possibly be dangerous to cats. He is dangerous to rodents.
He’d have a “heyday ” in my neighborhood ! Rrrraaattts! The other buster is handsome lil ham too ! Soo happy for you !
He would definitely eliminate rats. The other dog is a girl. She’s almost 10. Not showing age much yet.
Both are very cute
My dog hated cats. Those fools used to walk along the top rail of the fence of his kennel and when he’d see them he would go ballistic. He would have definitely killed them if I had let him.
Why do you keep your dog locked up in a kennel? That’s cruel! And they become aggressive. 🙁
I certainly couldn’t leave him run loose and get killed in the street. it was a 12’x12′ with a 3’x4′ dog house with a covered porch to help keep rain out of it. He had a Rubbermaid agriculture tub with about 30 gallons of fresh water in addition to his drinking water which was in a container that was impossible for him to dump. He had a 3×5 ft sun deck in the kennel that he loved. He got to get out and run nearly every day during the warm months which is why he never felt the need to try to escape. That dog went to the vet way more than I ever did go to the doctor.
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These are from 2005. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8c014e0f2ab51af7670a89a02844fb64a1e14ec4bcca248390ef163014944f84.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1551a899cfbc1939cee01602887d0f307349b6ff64c71dcfadf457bc0cfce74c.jpg I sure don’t see any signs of abuse here. I don’t appreciate being accused of it.
I’ve had dogs for my entire life and never owned a crate or kennel. I don’t get why so many people keep their dogs in crates. My entire house is the crate. And now that I’ve installed a doggy door, my dogs have free reign both inside and out…
Sounds like his dog is already aggressive. I’m glad he’s locked up in a crate. A toddler might wander by and end up as a chew toy.
He is a puppy. I don’t think he really has the intent to mangle anything, but he does want to play. That could be bad. What he really needs is a big, mean cat to kick his ass.
Sweet angels!
They look healthy and happy dogs.
And seems to be very guarding.
Pitbulls are adorable. What a cutie.
I designed one similar to that for my big beast. He ran like a horse when I had him.
He’s a good boy, but SQUIRREL! Walking him is well… nice until SQUIRREL! (or cat). I use his regular collar and a Martindale cinch collar (he’ll snap a choke chain or prong collar) to keep him from bolting on me. Yes. He needs more exercise. But he gets a lot of exercise. Is there enough exercise? He leaps 9 feet in the air, rips branches out of my dogwood tree.
Like I tell him. Quit being a dog. But I love him. Most days anyway.
I used to run Rocky with my 4 wheeler. He would run his happy @$$ off with his tongue hanging out. He loved running through the woods.I ran him for an average of 4 time a week for most of his life. I had him a big Rubbermaid tub for a pond in his kennel. He would go lay in that thing after a run. Fortunately I had enough property to run him on so I didn’t need to use a leash very often. He was only allowed to be loose when I was with him. I didn’t need him getting shot for dumping someones garbage cans.
I’ve been trying to get him to walk or run (without dragging me off the street) by a bicycle. He can pull so hard it pulls the tire off the rim… sideways… Maybe I should just hook a 500 pound block to him and let him drag that?
Put one of those old time lawnmowers on a harness. Teach him to cut the grass. I never tried to run Rocky with a bicycle. I would have been screwed if he saw a cat. lol
He wants to kill lawnmowers.
Rocky wanted to eat the wheels off of my 40 year old OMC Lawnboy.
Its been a few years, but I do interior construction and painting. With some day laborers, I redid my walls, woodwork, and windows. Professionals installed the windows, floor boards, and crown molding. But I did all the finishing.
I do sheetrock, beads, minor carpentry, skim coating, sanding, and painting. As usual for me, I look to save $$$. Cuts immensely on labor. I wind up teaching the day laborers, although I usually give 1-2 skilled guys for larger projects.
My dad had a small company growing up. I worked at various times for the business. Doing field as well as office work. I love doing it. My home is always well maintained.
I’ll say it again: I have a deep respect for all workers, but especially physical labor. It’s primordial. And in my opinion the only way to truly understand life in depth.
If you can, do some farming and fishing. It teaches how you must input more labor for lesser outputs of leisure. It absolutely teaches that work is fundamental…and why a good worker versus a shirker is valued and earns more.
Farming and fishing involve building and maintaining structures, tools, and serious planning. Mathematics too. I honestly see a big difference between people who’ve had such experience. It usually breeds toughness and realism.
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Happy (Not so early) Halloween!!
Does anyone want to do a countdown with me?
Well, I’m in the process of directing a new theatrical presentation (I wrote) about an encounter between the first U.S. female president-elect and the ghost of a past president, entitled: The Moral Arc of the Universe.
Our first show will be in February of 2020.
What will you do with all your free time in March? 🙂
Hopefully, I will begin to write a new play. . .about the origins of patriarchy. I’m already compiling my notes.
Sweet!
Along with the historical research I can draw on a lot of personal experience 😎
Where else have I heard about this ? Familiar to me..
Best of Luck !! 👍
You are in a show business. That sounds wonderful.
No wonder why you have so much music collection.
I hope your theatrical presentation will be successful.
Good luck.
Well, not much ‘business’ has come out it in the 40+ years I’ve been doing it.The most I ever personally made from it, at one time, was about a grand. Most of the time I’m lucky if I make a few hundred dollars.
Nevertheless, at this point, it is a labor of love more than anything else. Now that I’m retired* I’m able to devote more time to it . . .inbetween my political activism . . .and posting on the internet!
*I made my ‘living’, for the most part, in retail sales and customer service.
Great that you are able to devote more time for it. I hope that will make it grows more. And you sound to still be busy after retired, that is wonderful as you don’t have the chance to feel boring like some retiree. Yes, it’ll be great to keep seeing you here and watch your video collection you post on here. Thank you, Collectivist…:))
Congrats!! That’s very exciting.
Hard work too. Many people imagine themselves on a stage, acting, but don’t want to consistently rehearse.
Then there’s ALWAYS the problem of funding.
Recently I got a bigger shop and eight foot sheet metal brake. I built this bench with sheet metal rack onto the brake.
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I also built this four by eight foot rolling bench.
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nice looking benches.
(what is a sheet metal brake?)
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I’m a third generation tinsmith, that’s grandpa above. Below is my dad next to his brake, we use them bend sheet metal.
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Awesome! That is quite the piece of equipment.
Then truck looks vintage and nice…:))
I wouldn’t mind having a truck like that. I think it’s cute. 🙂
You are a busy bee….:))
It’s so much worthy for you to reduce your online time here to focus more on your business.
Good luck, JAG and success always.
That is a nice brake. I have a friend who picked one up like that one for a good price. That looks like an 8 footer? Never mind about that, I see you mentioned that in your comment. I saw the pic before I read the comment. lol
My latest project is washing my ex-wife out of the house. Bleaching walls and ceiling to erase the cigarette stench. Threw away the bed. And most of the furniture.
That would drive me bananas . At least keep a window open and fan blowing the smoke out. Quality fragrant candles help alot too. I smoke light cigs,No one ever noticed. Plus I do the ceilings and walls once a week (1 1/2 bdrm unit) . Yet i always have cleaning chemicals going. Never smoke in bdrm.
BTW, that’s a big tower ! Do you get scared ?
My butt has puckered a few times over the years. My worst pain is the friends I’ve lost on the job.
Oh terrible. . Very tough job physically and mentally . Did you ever have a fear for heights ? Those towers look like they can blow away. I commend anyone whom can overcome the phobia. I get dizzy watching building of skycrappers, looking down from ledges, window washers, spire painters.
I have a healthy respect for heights. But I use my gear correctly so when I do slip and fall it catches me.
They don’t put down plywood sheathing first? I don’t think I’ve seen it done that way before…
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Thank you.
Most welcome…:))
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No wonder you sounded to be super busy lately.
Congrats and good luck.
I am still at work, only abut leaving office right now.
Send the invites then come back here later.