What did you do today?

[zannej]

That actually looks pretty cool! How do you make the rope stay in place? Adhesive or staples?

I went to samsclub for groceries and then Lowes to pickup the door. Got it unloaded in the workshop with my brother doing most of the lifting. Cow came to inspect. She followed us back up to the house and slobbered on the milk cartons when we were unloading groceries. Can't really blame her. LOL.

I'll have to get her more sweet feed on Friday.

 

[C.J.]

That actually looks pretty cool! How do you make the rope stay in place? Adhesive or staples?

1/4” narrow crown staples, same as for 1/4” UL, shot down into the subfloor. If you nuzzle the nose of the stapler in between the strands it hides the staples pretty damn good. I used super glue on the cut ends to keep them from fraying.

After doing the rope I kinda like it. 10 million times faster than 1/4 round and it contours to everything.

 

[DarisMulkin]

I figured you would have put a bead o silcone or cove base adhesive then a few staple to back it up or finish nails.

 

[C.J.]

I figured you would have put a bead o silcone or cove base adhesive then a few staple to back it up or finish nails.

That’s what I figgered as well but the 1/4” staples held it just fine. Win win I guess.

 

[highup]

First time I’ve trimmed out a floor with rope Doesn’t look too bad for what it is.


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I really like that rope. If the trailer floats it would be even more logical.

 

[highup]

1/4” narrow crown staples, same as for 1/4” UL, shot down into the subfloor. If you nuzzle the nose of the stapler in between the strands it hides the staples pretty damn good. I used super glue on the cut ends to keep them from fraying.

After doing the rope I kinda like it. 10 million times faster than 1/4 round and it contours to everything.

Why not just use hot glue? Squirt a glob every six inches.

 

[highup]

I found some of our local history.
It's from the Coos Bay times newspaper.
It's kind of interesting how they formed topics on a newspaper page back then.
On the first edition, they mentioned the record high temperature that was set and not far from that on the same page was about a steamship that was not going to be loading coal. Funny thing about that is the coal mines are less than a mile from my place. The mines haven't existed for decades. They're just history. Coal was mined here and shipped to San Francisco. Another page for history showed local call priced at $5 per ton. I'm betting that was a price delivered.
https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn85033159/1907-04-21/ed-1/

 

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If this page loads up correctly there's an article on local login contracts.
That's a lot of lumber.
...... And they didn't have chainsaws back then.
https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn85033159/1907-04-21/ed-1/seq-5/Between those three companies, that's 80 million board feet of timber and most of it was shipped out of here. I think of the time Oregon's highway system along the coast was actually the beach.
Much if not all of it came out of the woods directly into the river and was floated down into the bay many, miles away.

 

[C.J.]

Why not just use hot glue? Squirt a glob every six inches.

Hot glue has a tendency to pop loose once in a while. That trailer is gonna shake, move and twist. This one is actually going to be an office for some movie company in New Mexico so it’s gonna get baked and frozen at the same time out in the desert.

 

[highup]

Hot glue has a tendency to pop loose once in a while. That trailer is gonna shake, move and twist. This one is actually going to be an office for some movie company in New Mexico so it’s gonna get baked and frozen at the same time out in the desert.

That occurred to me after I posted it. Might be treated with some sort of oil in the processing of it and maybe that's why it releases.

 

[C.J.]

That occurred to me after I posted it. Might be treated with some sort of oil in the processing of it and maybe that's why it releases.

My buddy got one of them high temp glue guns and he was all about using that thing for reducer until he had to go back cus one popped loose. Silicone is great for transitions n such cus it allows for a little movement.

 

[highup]

My buddy got one of them high temp glue guns and he was all about using that thing for reducer until he had to go back cus one popped loose. Silicone is great for transitions n such cus it allows for a little movement.

I'm wondering if it came loose from the concrete or the reducer.
Whether the reducer is wood or plastic like the one shipped with laminate floors the hot glue assists the other glue really well.
I find if you lay the transition in place and draw a pencil line where it's supposed to end up, you can put a bead of adhesive next to your pencil line but leave a gap every foot or so. With your hot glue gun heated up toasty, you put little globs of glue in those gaps and as quick as you can, press the molding into place. The hot glue holds well enough to keep it there while the adhesive sets up

 

[Floorist]

Well, I am needing another iron infusion. Probably in a couple weeks.

 

[highup]

I insisted on felt pad. It isn't making the carpet stretch any easier, but I knew that going in.
I stretched pretty much all directions, but on the final two stretches length and width, I stretched and stay tacked part way across the room. Even doing that it didn't really stretch a lot.
What a nasty layout to stretch evenly.
The dimensions are 24 by 24 clear into the narrower part. I don't care how big your stretcher is there's no way you're going to pull 24 ft and get a decent stretch.

 

[C.J.]

I'm wondering if it came loose from the concrete or the reducer.
Whether the reducer is wood or plastic like the one shipped with laminate floors the hot glue assists the other glue really well.
I find if you lay the transition in place and draw a pencil line where it's supposed to end up, you can put a bead of adhesive next to your pencil line but leave a gap every foot or so. With your hot glue gun heated up toasty, you put little globs of glue in those gaps and as quick as you can, press the molding into place. The hot glue holds well enough to keep it there while the adhesive sets up

I’m sure it popped loose from the concrete. My nieces gave me a wooden board with a rock glued to it that says ‘To the greatest uncle, you rock’. Bout a year later the rock fell off. Cheap child labor I guess. I cleaned it up and glued it back on with my glue gun. I made sure to wait until the glue was good n hot before I re glued it. It made it a couple more years then the rock fell off again. Guess I shoulda construction adhesived it on.

 

[highup]

I’m sure it popped loose from the concrete. My nieces gave me a wooden board with a rock glued to it that says ‘To the greatest uncle, you rock’. Bout a year later the rock fell off. Cheap child labor I guess. I cleaned it up and glued it back on with my glue gun. I made sure to wait until the glue was good n hot before I re glued it. It made it a couple more years then the rock fell off again. Guess I shoulda construction adhesived it on.

You could have just drilled a hole in the rock, tapped it from the bottom side and put a hidden screw. Come on buddy you can do better than that.

 

[C.J.]

You could have just drilled a hole in the rock, tapped it from the bottom side and put a hidden screw. Come on buddy you can do better than that.

The sigh is under my nightstand and the rock is out in the yard. With the cost of wood I’ll turn the sign into something else then regift it back

 

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Lumber barron's were crazy....
....with the expense of transporting logs, you wonder how they'd make money.
Smart guys figuring out how to do it.

 

[C.J.]

It’s not often we get to see the finished product when everything is put back in place and is ready for pictures. Today I was lucky enough to see the finished product. Here’s what a finished trailer ready to ship out looks like. Kinda neat.

 

[highup]

Holy smokes looks like that added $30,000 to the price tag.
(Batteries not included)