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20201
« on: November 20, 2016, 03:48:28 PM »
^^^Nothing wrong with that at all!
20202
« on: November 20, 2016, 03:47:20 PM »
Nice!
20203
« on: November 20, 2016, 03:46:12 PM »
Naw, send it to me
Then if you ever visit you can have it! ;-)
20204
« on: November 20, 2016, 03:42:29 PM »
More female logic today........
Another demerit...
20205
« on: November 20, 2016, 03:42:06 PM »
OK, so I'm laying this panel out my head
I make the top and bottom plates from 2 X 8's which is 7 1/2 in. wide
Start with a sheet of 1/2" OSB, then attach those to standard 2 X 4's
That makes for a 7" deep cavity on one side and a flat OSB face on the other.
On top of the "Cavity" side, next insert the 2" Poly foam board
Lay another 1/2" OSB on top of that and you have a 1" recess remaining. Attach the lat or wire to the OSB and pour in a mortar mixture, then later on cover that with a good asphalt based sealant/coating.
Then get a convict to hold it in place for the price of a days liquor and bolt it all up...
I'll call this the base plan...
20206
« on: November 20, 2016, 03:34:37 PM »
They already make a modular styrofoam form that snaps together like that wired together that they pour the concrete into and leave in place. Saw it on This Old House few years ago
Back at my wife's parents, a couple in town built their whole house out of these.
I think with the right concrete, some form of rubberized waterproofing membrane on outside you'd be GTG.
And what Shawn said.
No linky Senor'
20207
« on: November 20, 2016, 03:33:57 PM »
Concrete walls only leak because of poor drainage, not because of cracks.....
Argumentative... One demerit!
20208
« on: November 20, 2016, 03:27:09 PM »
I now have 5 ea tires/wheels to sell to the local Mexican low rider crowd!
Edit: We don't actually have a local Mexican low rider crowd...
Hmmm...
20209
« on: November 20, 2016, 02:57:18 PM »
Ohhh, take note - real fabricators use steel welding tables.......no flames and it lasts until the material is needed elsewhere for a project!
You have no proof ;-))
Except a searing memory of my fabricator father & grandfather smacking me upside the head often standing beside them at the shop. Then there's Shawn......and your flaming paint tables/work surface/shipping boxes! ;D
Nothing wrong with flaming tables! Motivates one to get the job done quicker!
20210
« on: November 20, 2016, 02:55:04 PM »
Using NV would be a natural there, plus would be good for other things.
Good thought on adding more jacks, but I would use the solid screw stands and maybe even get those tires off the ground if that is a permanent location.
No tires! Look at the pics my knucklehead friend We removed the tires wheels Figure I'll sell all five of them and buy some coyote killin ammo.
20211
« on: November 20, 2016, 02:52:25 PM »
They already make a modular styrofoam form that snaps together like that wired together that they pour the concrete into and leave in place. Saw it on This Old House few years ago
A MSWF. Never thought of that But concrete cracks, which then leaks, something I was wanting to get away from Work with me here...DBCBW! (Don built composite basement wall)
20212
« on: November 20, 2016, 02:35:26 PM »
OK, I've been thinking again
No, no fires, smoke, or injuries just yet...
So everyone following the hide site thread knows that I excavated a "Keyhole" for a future underground utility/mechanical space.
The more I ask for someone to put in a concrete pad or block wall, the more I feel uneasy about actually getting anyone to do it.
First, no one answers their phone. Secondly, everyone working concrete has been to or is currently in jail. Finally everyone who bids the job thinks that they need to pad their retirement savings on this job alone.
Case in point: The last guy I asked to simply pour a 16' X 12' pad said he would do it for $550. No, that did not include any concrete, or any steel, or any forms, no, none of that! I was asked to provide all that. All he was going to do was to show up for the pour and I guess get me screeded, and smoothed! ...$550 for that! I asked him which brand campaign he wanted me to serve as well. He didn't get it!
OK, I can easily pour that pad, and I guess I'll have to since no one (who isn't incarcerated) wants to work. But onto the block wall, or poured wall, or whatever wall. I don't really like block walls. The farm house 100 feet away has a failing block basement wall, so that's reason enough not to build one. I don't really know how to lay up a block wall, and my experience in getting things square and level is, well, a bit lacking.
Block wall guys, are, well, let's just say they seem to be the concrete guy's first cousins.
So I am back to doing something myself...Which got me thinking
The neighbors house across the street from my WTB (way too big) primary residence has basement walls which were panels. Seems they were 2 X 6 with some panel on the exterior, a foam core, and perhaps some concrete mixed in just cause they could...
Then I got to messin' with this Formular rigid board stuff...And that got me to thinkin' a bit more.
What if, the Warrant Officer thinks...What if I invent a wall panel myself?
What if I framed up a 2 X 6 panels with a pressure treated 2 X 8 base plate? What if I covered that with the Formular followed by a sheet of 1/2" OSB to which I attached some chicken wire or lat, then troweled on a thin layer of cement mortar...? What if I did that? Wouldn't that be pretty sturdy? Wouldn't that serve as a ready made panel that I could throw up like a lego set, fastening each to the other? Then chase that with a good waterproof material rolled onto the outside, then provide for some really good base drainage.
Seems if I did all that, I just might have a ready made basement wall to which I could attach a roof and call it all good...seems to me...
20213
« on: November 20, 2016, 02:07:51 PM »
Ohhh, take note - real fabricators use steel welding tables.......no flames and it lasts until the material is needed elsewhere for a project!
You have no proof ;-))
20214
« on: November 20, 2016, 02:06:24 PM »
Clever!!!
20215
« on: November 20, 2016, 02:04:48 PM »
ya, next time the boyz head off into the woods, they now have permission to take my M4 or my jazzed up Mossberg 930
I have not personally felt threatened by coyotes like this in the past.
But we have this other issue. Interbreeding of coyotes and wolves. Seems some braintrust in the dept of wildlife decided to release wolves in these parts to control the coyote population. Sort of like mixing dearborn base muslims with new syrian refugees...They just make more...
20216
« on: November 20, 2016, 11:08:49 AM »
Treehouse/Surburban build thread...I can see it!
20217
« on: November 20, 2016, 11:06:24 AM »
i know it. don't tell anyone.. don't want to ruin my reputation. hahaha
Aren't you glad that God forgives sin! ;-))
you mean the part where i buy something that may or may not work to replace something that 100% works as intended..? hahaha
Well, yea, that too...
20218
« on: November 20, 2016, 11:04:54 AM »
On the living room coffee table...Are you freakin nutz?
Either that or:
1. You're single
2. The wife is on vacation
3. This is a secret bachelor pad
4. Your buddy's house
20219
« on: November 20, 2016, 11:01:18 AM »
I watched a cool vid about how to paint that foam board to look like concrete. It turns out pretty, looking like distressed concrete in the end. That will likely wait until spring, as I have bigger fish to fry at the moment.
20220
« on: November 20, 2016, 10:59:35 AM »
Coming around the corner, I got a nice 8' run with no adjustments. It was sleeting on us at the time and the darned coyotes moved in to about 100 meters, so we gave up working and started shooting at the critters.
I am a bit concerned as they seem to be baiting the little pre ranger. He walked down the hill toward the range and one of them started doing the wounded animal cry. My little guy had his trusty 10-22 loaded up with CCi mini-mags so he was ready to do battle, but I recalled him. I may have to do something (to) those coyotes since they are just not backing down.
20221
« on: November 20, 2016, 10:56:04 AM »
It seems you have to cut around everything. But after the thousand cuts and tweaks the stuff fits in there just fine
20222
« on: November 20, 2016, 10:54:11 AM »
It's sort of a jig-saw procedure of measuring fitting, taping and moving on to connect the many fascets of the side of that box
20223
« on: November 20, 2016, 10:52:43 AM »
After taping the top with the aluminum duct tape and back filling with gravel, I realized I did not need to use the 2 X 4's as the gravel does a pretty smart job of holding that stuff right where you want it to remain.
20224
« on: November 20, 2016, 10:50:54 AM »
The piece is cut into a parallelogram to fit the fall of the ground (Nothing in the Kintucky is level or flat)
Then worked up under the apron skirt. We started with laying in a PT 2 X 4 and hammering in 1/2" X 12" spikes we cut from rebar to anchor the bottom.
The pre-Ranger is in the process of:
1. knocking dents into the foam panel
2. Smashing his hand
3. Smashing his foot
4. Hitting his hand again
5. Asking dad to show him how to do it
20225
« on: November 20, 2016, 10:46:34 AM »
I didn't have them at the moment but I will be adding four more scissors jacks next week outboard of the axles so that I get a very solidly supported structure in the unlikely event of some fat millennial visiting.
The foam board is neatly cut with a swift "Karate chop" if you are a ninja, or with a standard saw if you are a lesser man.
We are lesser men, so we used the saw
20226
« on: November 20, 2016, 10:43:50 AM »
The other support points were also bedded in with blocks worked down into the gravel
20227
« on: November 20, 2016, 10:41:53 AM »
We leveled it in the longitudinal axis but kept the south side about 1/2" higher to allow for settling. That side rests on the fill dirt that I tracked in during the summer
20228
« on: November 20, 2016, 10:40:12 AM »
The electricity is all but hooked up to the shed, which translates to my having power to the camper for a 24/7 heater unit os some sort.
But looking at the camper, which is a box on wheels designed to have wind flow all around and under it, it qualifies as a pretty decent heat sink. The type that gets rid of the heat you actually want to keep.
I have read enough to note that simply skirting the unit and eliminating the underside air flow goes a long way toward keeping the footsies warmer (And the pipes from bursting)
We started the project with a breakfast of bear-claws and apple fritters...Then we passed out from sugar overload and got started later on...
After the early morning nap we decided to lower and level the trailer. We removed the wheels and set the axles on 16 X 8 blocks with some cribbing. That got it lower and more stable, a good starting point
20229
« on: November 20, 2016, 10:33:58 AM »
I may be slow with this broken foot, but at least I do poor work!
Yep, slow me is, but I forged ahead with skirting up the camper in preparation for working and loving out of it all winter when I'm "Farmin'"
Man it was a chilly day. Temps ranged in and around freezing with a 16-20mph wind. That had two effects. It kept us pretty cold, and it made sails out of the foam board I had chosen to use as the skirting material.
Some notes on the rigid foam board insulation. I chose the DOW product, formular which comes in several densities. The basis stuff is "150", followed by 250, and I think 450. The latter is strong enough to stand on with a saw horse at either end and is considered structural. The 150 stuff is typical of what you see used in home construction.
I chose a 1.5" board which boasts a R-7 insulating value and is pretty stiff. You can see it's a chunk:
20230
« on: November 20, 2016, 10:10:28 AM »
I miss my purple dodge colt I drove in the Korea...Fine ride , that one!
20231
« on: November 20, 2016, 10:08:47 AM »
(Read next sentence in voice of Eore of Winnie the Pooh fame)
"It's here....winter......woke up to flakes falling at 4:30 am letting the dog out..."
As I age, I'm getting to despise winter........cold and damp......morons driving who shouldn't be, even when roads are dry! My truck is outside year round so always needs to be cleared of the white crap or ice - thank heavens for auto start! I'll need new tires now too as some serious travel this spring/summer wore them quicker than anticipated!
Don't get me wrong, I like snow on a limited basis and have no problem driving in it, I just hate sniveling millenials and their friends who can't handle election results and differing beliefs or opinions because it makes them sob and curl up in a ball.......these idiots confronted with adverse driving conditions try to do the same IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY anytime they can't see black pavement, seeming to chant "black pavement matters" and thinking their "safe zone" should be wherever they happen to be when challenged mentally or physically!
Unfortunately, survival of the fittest no longer applies to the human race in America......nope, we nurture the weakest and mentally feeble, holding back the brightest and strongest so everyone can feel validated and affirmed in their "life choices"........what happened to winter thinning the herd!
So, as we rush into the Holiday Seasons, we all get to see relatives and friends who we KNOW would be our first candidates for sustainence duty if we were in a Donner Party scenario, and they'll probably still be puffy eyed and "boo-boo lipped" from the Election results across the country and looking for a "safe zone" from your judgmental voting and unwillingness to affirm their wallowing in self-pity. I fear the phrase "suck it up, Butter Cup" will be uttered unmercifully this year by me.....
Well, time for more coffee and maybe a fire in the fireplace?.......Can't take bird dogs hunting during Deer Season weekend around here so we can catch-up on naps together this afternoon!
This Thanksgiving, I'm going to be thankful that the silent majority woke up and ran one our biggest families of Rats out of power for a little while, and we have a "chance" to return the country to a Godly path again! God Bless America! Push a KIA or Prius into the ditch this winter if the opportunity arises........it'll build character for a suffering millenial!
I'm on it!
20232
« on: November 18, 2016, 11:38:20 AM »
i know it. don't tell anyone.. don't want to ruin my reputation. hahaha
Aren't you glad that God forgives sin! ;-))
20233
« on: November 18, 2016, 11:36:46 AM »
I can't get a hole dug to save my butt!
Tried to get Duane down there since spring to get it dug...he struck out. Then actually had a hoe on property and asked him. He had to leave for another job and I haven't seen hide nor hair of him since. Asked a concrete guy to punch a hole, put a 36" pipe in it and top it with a nice concrete pad. He must have fallen into a parallel universe cause I haven't heard from him either.
Now, I can't hand dig it because of all the big rocks. I don't own a back hoe or excavator (yet) so I can't do it. No one wants to work for money. I was thinking of waiting for lightening to strike and burn a hole...
Duane won't loan you his Kubota BX25? is he afraid of your normal carnage? ::)
Probably!
20234
« on: November 18, 2016, 11:33:00 AM »
^^^ That's not real?
20235
« on: November 17, 2016, 07:37:39 PM »
wounds I can handle. socks with sandals guy... (shivers).
Who wears socks?
20236
« on: November 17, 2016, 03:37:07 PM »
I can't get a hole dug to save my butt!
Tried to get Duane down there since spring to get it dug...he struck out. Then actually had a hoe on property and asked him. He had to leave for another job and I haven't seen hide nor hair of him since. Asked a concrete guy to punch a hole, put a 36" pipe in it and top it with a nice concrete pad. He must have fallen into a parallel universe cause I haven't heard from him either.
Now, I can't hand dig it because of all the big rocks. I don't own a back hoe or excavator (yet) so I can't do it. No one wants to work for money. I was thinking of waiting for lightening to strike and burn a hole...
20237
« on: November 17, 2016, 09:42:12 AM »
This time you'll have a bench to shoot from and a building with lights
and a pretty crapper!
Getting sorta sophisticated.
A Marine got involved He saw an unused strip of land... The rest is history!
20238
« on: November 17, 2016, 08:47:33 AM »
^^^I love this story^^^
The ever changin' storyline of the farm boy and his old truck chasin' miss Kay!
Welcome back Norm!
20239
« on: November 17, 2016, 08:44:27 AM »
New SALE at JM Bullion!
10 oz. at spot price with free shipping- I just jumped on this and it's a great company to purchase from....Limited Offer and limited to one per person/address.
https://www.jmbullion.com/silver/
I have so much of that stuff... Not braggin, nossir! I know easy come, easy go But I'd echo Mikey's point out to these people. I have purchased from them for years. Silver is good stuff to have
20240
« on: November 17, 2016, 08:42:45 AM »
the guy ended up selling the trans while i was out of town. no harm no foul. i didn't 'need' it.. but would have been cool to have a 5 speed. another will come along eventually i'm hoping. he still has the pedal assembly, which is nice to know. the truck runs great.. and only has slight wandering in steering which will be addressed with a borgeson shaft (not the coupler my dad accidentally bought..) and a different steering gear. i believe that's where most of my slop is coming from.. despite still having that junky bell coupler on it. i tackled somethings that's been bugging me for about but didn't effect anything mechanically.. and that was the fuel gauge. it's never read more than 3/4-7/8 slammed full of fuel, and lately it's been going to empty after only 100-130 miles. so, i pulled a board off the bed, slipped the sending unit out to inspect. there was alittle but if just gunk on the float lever and workings. so i disassembled, cleaned and inspected. i hypothesized that the diesel residue on the contactors was impeding a proper resistance reading, so with alittle scotch bright and brake cleaner i went to work. once cleaned, i noticed that the 2 small springed contacts that ride the inside of the sending unit had worn. one with a hole in it maybe the size of a pin head. so, out come the soldering iron to put a dab on the end of each to build back up and create a better surface. cleaned the 3 points to which the wires from top plug come down and hook to the sender, reassembled and 'bench tested' it. the tank is completely full. and when i checked what 'full' was out of the truck, it was between 7/8 and full. which it had never done before. i tested 'half' on the float and it too seemed to be on point with the gauge. empty was empty. so back in the truck it went, now awaiting real life results.
Duane has one. He purchased a torn down 91 W250 a couple years ago for the cummins and drivetrain to repower his 76 power wagon I am trying to either buy it from him or just get him to make it an auto or at least a newer 5 or 6-speed Want me to ask him?
20241
« on: November 17, 2016, 08:39:46 AM »
Ooooh, a formal range set-up......not that I minded sitting a straddle cedar logs and all whilst taking your Springfield for a spin! Hope to have my AR10 together well before the next visit and let you "review" it as a point/counterpoint to Bobby's, if we can arrange a meet-n-shoot this winter/spring!
Stove situation might be a pain - small fires build more creosote if you can't get it hot enough to warm the flue and draw.....I guess you're gonna have opened windows for "fresh air" this winter!
Would never have thought that the furnace would have been that hot to melt the squirrel cage without air movement to that extent! Usually the battery would have kept the system going just fine, but being toast like I remember you mentioning previously would explain why!
I'd like to see you and some of the other knot-heads that lurk here down there in the winter, or spring, or summer or fall. This time you'll have a bench to shoot from and a building with lights and a pretty crapper!
20242
« on: November 17, 2016, 08:37:30 AM »
Copy, Big Dave.
I'm back in mandals!
20244
« on: November 17, 2016, 08:31:32 AM »
^^^^ Is that a Norm sighting???
Can I get confirmation...??...
20245
« on: November 17, 2016, 08:30:12 AM »
Well fresh air won't hurt, just glad it isn't to small.
I keep a little space heater in my TH for the winter so it doesn't get really cold in there since we watch movies in there time to time. That should work well under yours plus the fan will keep the air moving a little.
Did I see leaf springs in that pic above?
You did my concentration camp livin-in friend! Those are the "new" (25 years old) leaves going in the front spring pack of Squareness...
20246
« on: November 16, 2016, 07:51:19 PM »
Well this morning awoke to 34 degrees and rain.
Decided it was TLC day for truck.
Idlers, tensioner, alternator and power steering pump.
Done around lunch and headed into the bush.
Still similar temps and as he sun started to set the rain came back.
Not a thing seen, had something that must have winded me, head it leave I a rush.
See what tomorrow brings.
You'll soon be battenin' down the hatches for yet another winter!
20247
« on: November 16, 2016, 07:49:39 PM »
The local power company has yet to hook my shed up to the pole (GUURRRRRRR...) so I guess I'll have to call them again and grovel and beg again!
All this is very motivating to get completely off the grid and makin' my own electrons!
Oh and the stove in the shed is like W AAA Y too big. THat thing will flat out cook you in that place if you let it. We tossed in some locust logs and shortly afterward, the thermometer was pointing to 700 degrees!!!!!!
I need to install a damper in the exhaust pipe and seal it better with some high temp silicone, as we did have a hint of smoke while running it.
I have to say I am pretty pleased with how things are going at the moment. We actually do have a place to dity-mau to which has some water, sustainable heat in pretty good shelter, and hit and miss electrical capacity
Oh and my farm seems to be populating itself with critters. Believe it or not we have four beef cattle hanging out there. The chocolate brown puppies. I don't know who owns them, but he must not be missing them and they seem pretty comfortable hanging out at the goldfish pond.
Oh and the coyotes are starting to hang in pretty close, so I'm thinking murderous thoughts about them...
20248
« on: November 16, 2016, 07:42:12 PM »
I reinstalled it and test ran it for a time. It is back to it's nearly silent "whurring" sound and puttin' out the BTU's
This is a good thing and a big step forward, as it easily maintains the camper in a cozy state with outside temps in the 30's as it was that weekend.
With the camper skirted up as it will be this week, I think I can make an attempt at using it all winter. I'll add some aux heat source to warm the underbelly where all the water is. Once that is done we could actually live in that thing if the millennials actually managed to slow things up!
20249
« on: November 16, 2016, 07:38:54 PM »
Pulling down the air handler gave me access to pull out the wasp nest which had also taken up residence
I covered the intake/exhaust ports with a RV specific insect screen to prevent a future occurance
20250
« on: November 16, 2016, 07:37:30 PM »
Looking at it I figured out what happened. I remember the unit was purring right along keeping me warm and toasty. Then the generator quit, causing the furnace to immediately shutdown. You can see that the fire must have continued to burn for awhile with no cooling air running about. That concentrated heat melted a bunch of the fins and caused the imbalance which led to the thing grenading
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