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…. When called upon or stationed for the ready, you serve and have served the USA proudly 
Not many take the oath to support and defend the Constitution and yesterday was your day we honor that commitment…..Stand tall and be respectfully recognized. 
Thank you
…. When called upon or stationed for the ready, you serve and have served the USA proudly Not many take the oath to support and defend the Constitution and yesterday was your day we honor that commitment…..Stand tall and be respectfully recognized. Thank you
I'm glad it only did this for 45 seconds.
It did this about 2 1/2 or hours ago. I drove to the warehouse to pre-cut some pad and tackstrip for Fridays job. It's 3 miles away.
My brother asked for a ride to the market. It's 2 miles away and he walks there on a fairly regular basis for exercise and pick up an occasional can of chew. The weather was good, but up and down the coast all day, there has been a lot of lightning. We've been spared.
I dropped him off at the market the went straight to the warehouse. Chatted for 5 minutes then started cutting tackstrip to length.
One of the large roll-up doors at the warehouse has those long hanging, clear plastic "vertical blind" thingys to slow the wind and keep parking lot heat out or the light rain out.
Anyway it suddenly became noticeably darker, then my lightning app sent a notification of lightning within 25 miles.
I walked to the big door and the sky opened up.
I went straight to the truck to go save my brother before he drownded
It was raining so hard and so windy, I almost couldn't see across the three lane highway in town going across it.
I called my brother because I didn't see him along the way. He answered the phone and I asked him where he was hiding.
He said he just got home and his boots were soaked...... He said not from walking in water, just from the wind driven rain. He said the water coming down the road leading up to the house was an inch deep......
......he's my brother ....I tried.
Pretty wild system for these here parts. Whenever it gets nasty like this, it's almost always in the form of showers, rarely lasting for long periods. On my return to the warehouse, the sun almost reared it's head.
Interesting weather front.
It did this about 2 1/2 or hours ago. I drove to the warehouse to pre-cut some pad and tackstrip for Fridays job. It's 3 miles away.
My brother asked for a ride to the market. It's 2 miles away and he walks there on a fairly regular basis for exercise and pick up an occasional can of chew. The weather was good, but up and down the coast all day, there has been a lot of lightning. We've been spared.
I dropped him off at the market the went straight to the warehouse. Chatted for 5 minutes then started cutting tackstrip to length.
One of the large roll-up doors at the warehouse has those long hanging, clear plastic "vertical blind" thingys to slow the wind and keep parking lot heat out or the light rain out.
Anyway it suddenly became noticeably darker, then my lightning app sent a notification of lightning within 25 miles.
I walked to the big door and the sky opened up.
I went straight to the truck to go save my brother before he drownded
It was raining so hard and so windy, I almost couldn't see across the three lane highway in town going across it.
I called my brother because I didn't see him along the way. He answered the phone and I asked him where he was hiding.
He said he just got home and his boots were soaked...... He said not from walking in water, just from the wind driven rain. He said the water coming down the road leading up to the house was an inch deep......
......he's my brother ....I tried.
Pretty wild system for these here parts. Whenever it gets nasty like this, it's almost always in the form of showers, rarely lasting for long periods. On my return to the warehouse, the sun almost reared it's head.
Interesting weather front.
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Why would you precut tackless. I have never seen of this before. Ive seeen it preformed for a birdcage step that was to be waterfalled. Does your tackless come more than 4 ft long. Ive seen 8' back in the day.
In the pre-fab yesteryear, I would sometimes pre-cut the tackless for the boys and roll it up in the pre-cut ( width only ) stair pad….. they loved it so much, but like you said Daris, not necessary or the norm.
Hey ! I wonder how Nate , Raulan, Guitar playing ( ? ) and Montana ( ? ) guys are doing….. R they on another site ?
Hey ! I wonder how Nate , Raulan, Guitar playing ( ? ) and Montana ( ? ) guys are doing….. R they on another site ?
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Saves time. While at the job last week fitting transitions, there wasn't time to start the stairs and get just two done and leave for a week. I have one day and it must be on a Friday. It's over 1/2 hour from town and in addition to the carpeted stairs I have two LVP stair nose transitions to fit and adhere.
I measured the exact stair tread width and depth so I could pre-cut the tackstrip and pad.
It's just efficiency. I had three days off this week, so it's nice to hit the ground running with pre-cut pieces of tackstrip and a stack of individual pieces of pad.
House is to small to unroll a roll of pad and slowly cut pieces as I need them.....
I pre- cut the carpet into 4 ft strips last week because I didn't know if there was room to unroll a 12 by 8 piece of carpet (and there isn't)
I'm not even sure where I'll find a place to unroll the 4' wide strips of carpet, so I can trim them down to 3' 4"
Saving time wouldn't be such a big deal if it was a new empty house with no furniture, no dogs and no Grandpa in the place.
Weather has been wet, no usable garage space.....
... pre-cut tackstrip, pad and carpet is a no brainer on this one.
Must have a flooring place on Faceplant. There never were a lot of installers on flooring sites because unlike most of us, they had no questions.... they know EVERYTHING!
The ones you mentioned and others just disappeared from the planet.....it's not like there are a half a dozen other flooring sites out there.
.....there never was.
10's of thousands of installers out there..... yet forums have so few people joining in and spreading their knowledge.
.....that's always confused me.
Take away your kids cell phones and bring back board games.
You. precut the strip for the steps now I understand. I thought you were precutting for the whole house. I'm not the smartest fish in the sea, as you can tell.
You just gave me a great idea
Anyone fly RC planes?
This kind of control is off the charts. Skip ahead to the 8:00 point.
I hope this dude never gets a real plane.
This kind of control is off the charts. Skip ahead to the 8:00 point.
I hope this dude never gets a real plane.
I tried flying a R/C plane ONCE! It was wire controlled, where you let it circle around you. I made it 3/4 around when I pulled instead of pushed, and down it went. That was my last R/C flight....circa 1970?
Mine wasn't R/C. it was the real deal when in the Navy. I flew crew member many times and was given controll many times. I knew the route from Pensacola to New Orleans by the highway below so it was a 2 hour flight there. and 2 back giving me my flight time for the month. Anyway I had control and the pilot was taking a seiesta and all of a sudden the engines coughed and the props slowed down. My instinct was to pull back on the stick trying to make it climeb instead of fall.The pilot came awake at the first cough and switched gas tanks and grabbed the hand pump to put gas back in the engines which they caught and started running again. My action of pulling on the stick could have put us in a stall.
Having been taught flying by my instructor brother, I have about 80 hours of flying time. We would take off out of Fullerton Airport (near Disneyland) fly to Giant Rock dirt airport (in the desert, north and east of Big Bear) for an awesome breakfast, fly to Lake Havasu for lunch, then return and fly to Van Nuys Airport for a delicious dinner, before returning home back to Fullerton. Flying in the hot desert, we would experience severe hot pockets of air, where without warning, you would drop 3000-4000 feet. You always had to be on your toes, and always fly at 12,000 feet to allow you to recover from a hot pocket. It was a lot of fun, but anymore, it is a rich man's sport.
Nice
amazing experience, except for the dropping of 3,000 feet 
…. I have about 8 minutes flying time over the blue mountains in Pa. …. An old warehouse guy moved to Doylestown Pa. To finish his solo flying time, but I only went up once with him. His call sign was Whiskey Tango
Should have been Whiskey - Tango - Foxtrot!
(get it....WTF?)
(get it....WTF?)
You have more flight time than me. I rode shotgun on a 15 minute flight around town in my high school days and when I was around 14, a trip with my sister from San Francisco to North Bend flying the luxurious Hughes Air West yellow banana.
I swear the wings were flapping as we left the ground
....so, probably two hours in the air is all I got.
Your trip sounds more exciting by far.
....sounds like a Disney ride
I've watched a lot of YouTuber, Pilot Debrief....... Naw, give me a commercial flight
Every water heater has one of these stickers on it. Does anybody ever call this number? I was doing a water heater maybe 15 years ago and as I was filling it up it started leaking out of one of the pre installed nipples. I called my plumber buddy thinking I had overtightened something. Nope. It’s a factory flaw, take it back. So I did cus that’s why you went to HD in the first place, right. I took it back to HD and they said sorry, grab another one. I grabbed another one and was on my way to having hot water that night. How long would the wait have been had I called that number? Has anybody ever called that number?
