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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Sep 19, 2014 - 08:13pm PT
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I restored an old Viking reproduction sword and made a Viking scabbard based on the Cronk Moar archeological finds on the Isle of Man.
It was a project for a friend.
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john hansen
climber
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Sep 19, 2014 - 08:48pm PT
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For Ruppel and Jim B.
I spent almost 40 years working my way up thru the construction world.
When I was 18 and framing, we walked the plates to do layout and ran the trusses. Rebar protection might be a coke can,,
every skil saw was pinned back. In 78 not many people used nail guns. We hand nailed everything.
Assholes and elbow's as they used to say.
2x4 scaffolding , check , chicken sticks over7/12.
Frame all week, climb and camp on the weekend.
Went thru every phase from running framing and forming crews to building houses to completion, dealing with owners and architects, to becoming a partner in a construction company and running many multi million dollar projects for them.
The last ten years I have been involved in all aspects of the company but I recently left by my own choice.
We, as management and supervisors were really committed to following all the rules. Safety meetings every week, gradeall certified, CPR/First aid classes every year, MSDS training, fall protection, rebar-caps, hardhats and when ever needed, cranes, scissor lifts, and boom pumps.
The problem is, try to get an old roofer to tie in on a 3/12 ,2000 sf roof.
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, CA
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Sep 19, 2014 - 09:53pm PT
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Test flew her last week
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Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Sep 19, 2014 - 10:41pm PT
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3D work fellas. Dirty. Difficult. Dangerous. Today I lifted an 800 lb. glulam 10' into the air. Alone. It went fine. Two more to go; 900 lbs each and 14' high.
To me climbing and construction are both dangerous. To say otherwise is probably naive.
That said ,
Hi Ho Hi Ho
To work or climb I go.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Sep 20, 2014 - 08:59am PT
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You know what the framers use to say in Mammoth?
"If you can't reach it, don't nail it!"
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Sep 27, 2014 - 06:42pm PT
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"Get up there and nail it"
This week in carpentry.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Sep 27, 2014 - 06:55pm PT
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Corrosion inhibitor skid for a CO2 sequestration project, on it's way to Algeria.
This puppy will be responsible for sequestering more CO2 than all the ST warmists collective pieholes, bungholes and tailpipes will produce in their lifetimes.
We've built dozens of these since the 90's and it's odd that they ordered only one this time. We figure the sand people thought one was R2D2 and carted it off. Usually we farm these out to a subcontractor, but with only one it made more sense to build it in house.
These run on a 24V solar panel and battery setup and inject one liter per day at 2,500 psi. The major engineering problems at the beginning were developing a pump that could do that and a monitoring system that would reliably show flow at those pressures down to 1/2 Liter per day, but alarm below that.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Sep 28, 2014 - 04:42am PT
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Jim,
Was that you in the video?
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Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Sep 28, 2014 - 09:36pm PT
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I dunno, my tailpipe produces almost 200 lbs of carbon just to go to Home Depot and back. I'm the enemy.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Sep 28, 2014 - 09:58pm PT
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Nice one willbeer.
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ShawnInPaso
climber
Paso Robles, CA
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Sep 28, 2014 - 11:13pm PT
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Sep 29, 2014 - 11:48am PT
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Finally finished last bits of interior trim on my place, thought I'd post some room shots.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 29, 2014 - 11:59am PT
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^^^ Damn! That looks overbuilt for damn near any neighborhood, let alone Llatikcuf, WA!
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Sep 29, 2014 - 12:13pm PT
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Thanks Reilly,
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Sep 29, 2014 - 01:09pm PT
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Beautiful Hardly Visible
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coolrockclimberguy69
climber
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Beautiful interior, HV. Looks like a lot of work.
Here's my current project...
Any subie gurus here are encouraged to chime in with any beta.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
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HV....that is STUNNING. I would never leave.
Susan
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Bill Mc Kirgan
Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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How much dirt can I put in an 11 yard roll-off?
I mean, can I put in so much that the truck would be unable to pick it up, or be overweight?
I know I'm going to pay for the extra weight, I just wonder if I'm going to make it impossible to pickup or make it illegal for them to move.
They're huge trucks. I think they can handle if the dirt is dry.
What would it take to make the front wheels lift up?
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