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Here's where I anchored mine with the epoxy. Can get it at slowes or home despot it's a two part epoxy in a single tube. Follow instruction and it's actually stronger than the concrete. You'll pull a chunk out of the concrete with the bolt and epoxy before the epoxy fails.


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Exodus 23:9 also comes to mind. I understand his sentiments but they are poorly conceived and misdirected.  Some of the best people I know are foreigners who came here for a better life, embraced the language and culture and love America more than the hippy snot nosed brats that infest our colleges and coffee shops.

Defining people I don't want to deal with can be tough. However like a certain SCOTUS judge said once of pornography...I'll know it when I see it.

This man's misdirected hatred is what we end up with in Charlotte.  Some nazi skinhead sympathizer running over people and taking focus off the real issue. 

The real issue is that white people have been maligned for decades now as a guilt offering of the radical left. We're fed up with being told we are only successful because of white privilege and that we have to have our rights sacrificed to atone for the sins of our forefathers. Let's remember that while people founded this country. We abolished slavery, we welcomed foreigners and we espoused equality of all men and women and homosexuals and free speech and all religions. This is the greatest country on the planet and I invite the sniveling runt liberals to try to go to a foreign country and run off at the mouth about the same "rights". They'll find themselves in jail or murdered. 


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I'm a big fan of all thread and the super strength concrete epoxy.  Works well.


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Made it to commifornia.  Now I remember why people put up with the crazies. Beautiful. 72 degrees and a nice breeze.  Having lunch at Hotel Del


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That'll work too Don.  Caulk between the tank in the floor so you discourage snakes from getting in...or in my case scorpions....

Praying for you


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Quote from: TexasRedNeck on August 11, 2017, 08:04:06 PM

Rough crowd Don. Curious as to the weight of the water and other mechanicals that you intend to store there. 

Also the rock advice is sound. Gotta have fines to lock in place.


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As a rough estimate, water and piping = 15,000
generator and other electricals, say, 1,000 lbs
Lets throw a water heater in there + 500
Weight of two floors...Did I mention I was considering adding a full second floor which when cut into the roof would make for a 10 X 14 bathroom. So structure, what, a ton?
So the eight piers would be carrying what, 18.5, so lets just say 20,000 or 10 tons
10 X 14 = 140 sq/ft. 20,000/140 = 142.85 lb/ft2
So here's the trick part
Normal home floors are constructed for loads of about 40 psf...

I'm looking at 142ish lb/ft2
I am going to use 2 X 10 syp joists
The 2 X 10 can span quite a distance while maintaining live loads of 40 lb/ft2 with a 24 oc spacing.
Reducing that spacing to 16" gains a lot and I will place mine on 12" centers.
I also plan to span around 9' 6" because I plan to double up the plates the joists will attach to.

It's not completely clear but spanning 10 feet with a 2 X 10 exceeds the 100 lb/ft2 restaurant floor requirement, so with some fuzzy estimating I think I will be there.

Next question is how much weight can a 13" concrete post carry? Well in clay, 1300 lbs per pier, and gravel, 3600 lbs per pier.
But what about piers resting on rock? As in a large rock in the ground that God put there? Man, like I couldn't figure that, but I know the concrete is 5000 lb rated mix, so the pier itself is pretty strong. Some of the piers are deep and rest in clay/rock, and others are resting on the limestone below the surface.

The 40 psf and 100 psf residential and commercial floor structure are easily achieved with the lumber I am using and I am doubling that up, but of the piers??? I just don't know. I think to be sure I'll pour a few more and place them strategically to carry more weight

You knew what I was asking about.  Couple of things to consider. Your load is not evenly distributed. Those per sq/ft span tables are for evenly distributed loads so make sure you take that into consideration. The only way to know about soils is to test them. If you assume the best, the soil probably can bear 3000 per sq ft. Now remember your kin tucky math. Dem pie are square. Your round 12 inch tube forms are only about 3/4 a sq/ft in surface area. So each would bear about 2300 lbs each. I'd do 9 piers which would fix your span loads for the point load of the tanks and give you a little room on the soil bearing estimates. For a total of about 21,000 lb capacity in 3000lb sq/ft soil.

Here's a site I like to refer to sometimes.
https://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete/footing_fundamentals/why_soils_matter.htm


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:stickpoke   ........

Shawn,  Thats a bit of a tin foil hat prophesy....

But in any case, I'm good....

;-)

Seen that. Awesome


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:popcorn


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You have to consider flow restrictions in size and number of coolers.  There is a thread over on that other place

http://www.duramaxforum.com/forum/how-tos-diy-write-ups/159683-how-upgrade-allison-transmission-cooler.html

Interesting mental exercise....

both trucks almost always have 60-90 gallons of fuel on board....check
Full med kit in the truck....check
Family has go bags, with clothes, bottle of water, datrex bars and an MRE, toothbrush
My go bag also has my handheld HAM radio, 50 watt amp and roll up jpole for better coms
My chest rig hangs in the closet with 10 full mags of M855.  Grab a few ARs.  Pistol is nearby and I have extra mags in my chest rig along with a few chemsticks and knife and flashlight

At that point I probably have 3 minutes left.  Exit early and head to the secondary location where food stores can carry me 6-9 months.  Ammo and weapons for the rest of my life. Hope I can get through until garden produces and barter economy is established.

After that, all plans are worthless anyway so who knows.

Don, also remember that the heavier the trailer the less payload you have.  You can make a very heavily reinforced trailer but if its overkill then it takes away from your payload.

Food for thought

sounds good!  Thanks

Don, I believe control is a fleeting illusion.......

Also, you may already know this, but if you are having material delivered its cheaper to bring in bigger trucks.  The belly dumps carry 26 tons a trip and can at least lay a long strip of material along the road as they dump

hadnt used that stuff Dave.  Would like to hear more about he recipe and processing time on the beans.

after stretching the last of the barbed wire and driving 2 more T posts, I have decided that I am going to rent a powered post driver.  The soil is as hard as concrete and that manual driver is taking about 300 blows or more to get the post in the ground..


I contacted the rock yard and they are going to come give me an estimate on laying the rock on the 700ft of driveway. 

Done for now with the fence until I get back from San Diego.  I'm looking forward to relaxing in 78 degree weather and 68 degree water.....
We rented a house in Carlsbad/Oceanside area overlooking the beach and plan on relaxing and checking out the San Diego Zoo and a few other attractions

ryan, once Don gets SqD running he can remove the topper on the CMax and install a GN hitch and bags......

For once, I'm thinking positively Don. 
https://youtu.be/qztuEucrNBc

So today was a lesson in  fence building.  I have a new found respect for ranchers....

96 degrees and 106 heat index.  No breeze.  dismantling an existing fence and rolling up the wire and then stretching and splicing barbed wire and driving t posts.

Pics tomorrow. soreness and scratches from barbed wire and mesquite trees tonight....good thing my tetanus shot is good to 2018

Sweet!  Cant wait to see some pics.

That's pretty heavy for you.  My dually goes 9200 with aux tank full and some tools.

My sister had a fire from a wire like that in her house.....

Really glad you found it now..

This is an example of what I was thinking.  I know, I know, its red, but that was a coincidence.

https://houston.craigslist.org/cto/d/jeep-cj5-one-of-kind-runs/6199754221.html

Never thought about an fj60.  fj40 maybe but never an fj60.  Seems big for what I had in mind.  nice 40s are stupid expensive (but very cool)

I really like the clean steel dash of the early 70s jeeps (no pad)

I've vacillated between military vehicles or something more practical.  I just think I'd get more use out of a small 4wd than a LMTV

Wow. I love you guys(in a non gay kind of way).

I don't plan on rock crawling. The more I think of it after reading a bit the 4bt may be a novelty. I hear the vibration and weight and need to hear correctly can make them impractical.

Truth be told I want a simple EMP proof, no electronics, no emission requirement (older than 24 years in texas - which means 1983 newest)  go places larger vehicles can't go vehicle. Currently living in metropolis means I may have trouble getting out(ok I will have trouble getting out ) and I'd like something stupid simple and reliable and tough (ish). I like the flat steel dash of the early 70s jeeps from an aesthetics perspective and more and more the inline 258 seems a good fit.

 


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