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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #50 on: June 28, 2019, 06:05:05 PM »
I’d stay away from more of that green color. Yuck
As for the interior color floor.  I like that!!


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She did the whole thing. I was doing the sling-wing-thing in Afghanistan for the year(s) it took to build this monstrosity.
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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #51 on: June 28, 2019, 08:20:58 PM »
And it looks like she did a darn good job of picking it out. Absolutely a beautiful home.

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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #52 on: June 29, 2019, 10:03:50 AM »
Don what brand of stain was that?


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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #53 on: June 29, 2019, 09:19:21 PM »
Don what brand of stain was that?


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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #54 on: July 05, 2019, 10:09:08 PM »
So on to another project. This time I tore out the old retaining wall which was improperly constructed and was toppling over. Additionally the area beneath the screened porch was a catchall for junk and had a muddy/dirty surface with a lot of slope.

My plan is to wall that area in and turn it into a storage shed and level it all up. We will restack the retaining wall, of course in a mo-betterer fashion.
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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #55 on: July 05, 2019, 10:11:08 PM »
The little Deere is about useless as a mover. Even though it was just repaired, after one cut down at the farm, the pulley fell apart again. Maybe the thing can move a little dirt...
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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #56 on: July 05, 2019, 10:12:14 PM »
These mud filled blocks were HE-AVY!
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« Reply #57 on: July 05, 2019, 10:14:10 PM »
Had to do some hand digging too. That deere is such a piece of junk! With the bucket full, there is not enough hydraulic power to have any power steering at all. I shouldn't have to pay for this piece of crap!
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« Reply #58 on: July 05, 2019, 10:17:06 PM »
Oh, and I will be adding an oil burner to the wood boiler for this coming winter. With all myequipment, I accumulate quote the stockpile of the gooey stuff.

It's completely full, but I'll roll it onto the gravel once its graded and bury the oil line up to the boiler, along with another electrical conduit for future growth and another water line for who knows what.
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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #59 on: July 08, 2019, 10:40:11 PM »
So with the area somewhat leveled with the shovel and fine tuned with a bed of dense-grade gravel I set the first block.
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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #60 on: July 08, 2019, 10:41:23 PM »
Then over the next few sweat soaked hours stacked up a whole bunch more

Add retaining wall building to my list of things I don't ever have to do again in my life!
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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #61 on: July 08, 2019, 10:45:41 PM »
That thing measured out pretty level until I had to hop over the ridges of blocks when i was adding in the curves. There was a 3/7" lip I had to jump over and while backfilling with the gravel and setting the next block into a bed of the stuff, it is impossible to get them level and match up at the same height as the previous block.

And as for the exposed base. You are looking at the wall without a bed of 4"-6" locking it in place. I'll add in a step at the base of the PT timbers and level the gravel with that which should nearly bury the first course of blocks. There is definitely no wiggle at all, as everything is filled with dense grade gravel which I compressed with a hammer.
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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #62 on: July 08, 2019, 10:47:05 PM »
I tried to bring in several progressively tighter curved wall sections as the slope closed in tighter to the walkway
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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #63 on: July 08, 2019, 10:49:11 PM »
So that buried most of the water boiler piping and conduit PVC. I added in some drain convoluted tubing and connected it to the downspout...

I may change that some to collect rain water...

I leveled up the beds to created a tiered effect

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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #64 on: July 08, 2019, 10:50:23 PM »
More work to do, but it's almost ready for plants and mulch
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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #65 on: July 08, 2019, 10:54:38 PM »
Oh, and it gets cap blocks to finish off the tops of the blocks.

The tractor was just a mess. With a load of gravel on the front axle, the power steering simply didn't work.

Add to that the transmission is slipping out of 4WD again. You may recall that J-Deere had a recall on the things for doing that. They say you need to put all sorts of weight on the rear. I say BULL CRAP, John Deere. Here's an idea. When you're designing the "World's best tractor, why not design it correctly. You know like a bit better than the indian and korean brands that cost half as much and do a better job.

I want to find a lemon law attorney and have deere refund me all my money and take this headache back.
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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #66 on: July 08, 2019, 10:58:21 PM »
The gravel pit does not allow trailers any longer, only dump trucks

Read: WHHHAAAAATTTTTT???????

So I had to purchase the gravel at a landscaping place. one level bobcat bucket load for $29!

That's ridiculously expensive. That weight maybe 1800 lbs. Normal price is $16 per ton so it's way over priced, like twice as expensive. But with no local quarries now, this could prove to be a problem

The trailer had a load of 14,000 total weight, trailer and gravel, and pulled just great. Not worried about a bumper pull any more.
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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #67 on: July 08, 2019, 10:59:11 PM »
Those climbing flowers I planted are growing like weeds!
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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #68 on: July 08, 2019, 11:45:15 PM »
Hard to tell on your retaining wall, did you bury a plastic drain pipe inside wall at base to divert water away so water doesn’t come out under the wall eroding the foundation of said wall?
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Re: Zero to Hero: My home project
« Reply #69 on: July 09, 2019, 08:22:47 AM »
Hard to tell on your retaining wall, did you bury a plastic drain pipe inside wall at base to divert water away so water doesn’t come out under the wall eroding the foundation of said wall?
There was a pipe already there, perforated convoluted that was buried in gravel. I cleaned around it, poured in fresh gravel and stacked on a leveled spot next to it
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