Tom Picciani
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harbor freight has adapters to go from impact driver to socket. 1/4, 3/8, 1/2 inch. Pretty cheap
What did you do today?
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harbor freight has adapters to go from impact driver to socket. 1/4, 3/8, 1/2 inch. Pretty cheap
I imagine the wood smell was nice. Would have been cool to see those ships with the logs. I've seen old black & white pics of lumber rafts from the Mississippi River.Wish I had a decent digital camera Zan. Our area used to have 30 to 60 ships per month in our tiny port. They mostly loaded logs and lumber back "in the day".
These days they load more wood chips than anything else. The ship that left port today was loaded with logs. There is one port here where they can load logs and two that load wood chips. The last one that loaded and shipped lumber left the area a long time ago. Lumber and some plywood are still transported by train. We were once the largest lumber exporter in the world. ...... population, 16,000. Ain't that a hoot. We was somebody back "in the day"
What are the dimensions of that shed you need?
My town used to have some sort of paper mill that used a very noxious chemical. Whole town stunk like crazy. An online friend of mine happened to have gone through here before-- her husband actually worked at the local detention center. She said it was the nastiest smelling town she'd ever been in. It used to make me sick. Paper mill shut down years ago & the air has been much nicer.
I just went and tried to measure the shed. Outside wall to wall measurement of the depth was about 91" (not counting overhang for roof). I had trouble measuring the front as there was a big open space for the doorway & my measuring tape only goes to 8'. So I'd say it's roughly 10' for the front. So, looking at around 7.5' x 10' ? or does the roof overhang count? I'll have to go back out with a helper & a longer measuring tape for the front. I completely forgot to measure the height but my cows came to see me & brought mosquitoes and nats with them. I had to stop and sing the one cow her favorite lullaby before she let me walk away.
I got overheated as hell for the brief few minutes I was out there.
I'm hoping these two tropical storms that are blowing through won't get too bad. One of them will be hitting my area round the time of my dental appointment so I'm hoping my appointment won't be canceled or postponed.
Dental appointment got bumped to earlier. Marco passed without a problem. Got the tooth pulled but we all agreed it would be better to do the crown after the extraction site has had more time to heal (plus I wanted to let them get out of there sooner and I wanted to get out asap to take care of stuff). They gave me three 1 gallon jugs of distilled water. Dr. Honey lives up to her name-- very sweet. Everyone was super nice. They wouldn't let me carry any of the jugs of water. They don't know I had to lift a full back of water bottles later. I had to change gauze quite a bit within the first couple hours. Now I think the bleeding has stopped. I was able to eat some stew with one side of my mouth.
I saw some friends who evacuated- they just finished paying off their trailer but will probably lose it to the storm.
Hoping power won't be out for too long from this hurricane. I will likely lose phonelines due to flooding in the area but I'm on high ground.
I saw some friends who evacuated- they just finished paying off their trailer but will probably lose it to the storm.
Hoping power won't be out for too long from this hurricane. I will likely lose phonelines due to flooding in the area but I'm on high ground.
Where do you live Zan? I have a short memory. Storms here don't usually do more that break off tree limbs.
Are you doing ok, zanne?
She lives in Louisiana.
Damn. I was thinking somewhere else.
Tom Picciani
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Remnants are headed to southern Pennsylvania. Hitting overnight and all day Saturday. I’m high and dry but lots of places near me that flood.
We only got 1/2" of rain. No wind.
Tom Picciani
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Heavy weather coming our way out of Erie, through State College, and bullseye Lancaster.
We get so much of that we don't pay attention any more.
Tom Picciani
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Couple trees came down. One blocked a road and I had to make a uturn. Only 1/2 inch of rain. I always get a little anxious when I hear of hurricane remnants. In 72 we had Agnes. Dropped 12 inches on Lancaster County. Covered bridges got swept away. I would guess that would be 12 feet of water.
Heavy rain and wind here. Not from the hurricane. High of 79 today, 69 now. Was 95 yesterday.
I sent zanne an e mail. But towers are most likely down.
Where did everyone go?
They went to sh$$ and the hogs ate them. But I be here at least 3 times a day. Other boards are slow also.
Yeah, I noticed.
I got myself into an odd duck that wore my sorry arse out. A guy has a garage that he's revamping. It's 40 by 50. He removed a bunch of interior walls and a loft so now it's one large space. One crack went wall to wall through the center, then six more going from the center crack out to the opposing outside walls. That plus dozens of chips and craters from drilled holes and nails that held the interior walls. There was also a deep spauld area probably from a battery. I hit it hard with baking soda and no bubbles at all. I brought in the hose and used my shop vac to suck out the baking soda mess, the hit it with a stiff wire brush in my drill to clean out the loose aggregate.
Finished on day 4, but I told him it would take me two. Last thing I did was vacuum the entire floor. Let's see.....
walking backwards with the vac wand.... 40 passes, 50 feet long.... that's .....plain nuts
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I used UZIN 170 self leveler for the cracks. He didn't want a wide swath of filler, so I made a custom brass nozzle for a plastic bottle to slowly pour in the self leveler, filling the cracks until they were full.
That's where I missed my time estimation. The cracks filled up, then 30 seconds later they needed another fill, then another and another.....
This Large garage isn't for daily use as a garage. He's storing a 30 foot travel trailer, metal shelving and it will be a bit of a man cave. The guy didn't want to go for the expense of a properly applied epoxy coating, so the paint store told him a solid body concrete stain would be his best shot at some sort of finish. It's a not so perfect slab made better and at least it will have a more even color. He's aiming at a medium to dark brownish gray.
Anyway, he's happy with what I did........ and I'm beat up from such a tediously slow process. I've probably walked 5 miles in that sucker.
That's where I missed my time estimation. The cracks filled up, then 30 seconds later they needed another fill, then another and another.....
This Large garage isn't for daily use as a garage. He's storing a 30 foot travel trailer, metal shelving and it will be a bit of a man cave. The guy didn't want to go for the expense of a properly applied epoxy coating, so the paint store told him a solid body concrete stain would be his best shot at some sort of finish. It's a not so perfect slab made better and at least it will have a more even color. He's aiming at a medium to dark brownish gray.
Anyway, he's happy with what I did........ and I'm beat up from such a tediously slow process. I've probably walked 5 miles in that sucker.
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