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The Call Of K2 Lou
Mountain climber
North Shore, BC
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Jun 14, 2015 - 09:12am PT
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Big thank yous to all for the kind words, they're much appreciated.
Treez, the slide was sanded smooth, then painted and sealed (along with the rest of the concrete). We put a few extra coats of sealer on the slide. Your slide don't look too bad either, and the young'un sure seems to be enjoying it!
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Jun 15, 2015 - 10:02am PT
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Yankee ingenuity, a screw jack on a strong back to straighten a roof that had a tree fall through it.
Bad photos, but you get the idea.
Downeast Maine is someplace I could live, for sure. It was pretty fun getting out of town for a spell. We rowed to Castine for supper one afternoon and seals were popping up all around us, just checking us out. Not a bad place to call home for a week. From that big colonial, it's 100 yards of pastoral field to the shore and the mooring. It's my second work week at this place in as many years, so cool.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Jun 30, 2015 - 01:24pm PT
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This thread is falling by the wayside! And rightfully so, as the builders are out building things and being outdoors in their free time. At least I assume so, because that's my story and everyone's like me, right?
Hope everyone's making some money and having fun!
I'd share some photos, but energy upgrades don't make for good photography. Plus, I'm too damn busy working and playing to stop and take photos.
This is a bump.
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Jun 30, 2015 - 05:05pm PT
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Brandon ,I hate summer,because I am busy as .....well you know.
Been making money ,but hate missing life.
I am a transient living in a barn/van.Having alot of fun while building a house,running 3 jobs and chasing skirts.
At least I will be lighting up jobsite power for the 4th.
Enjoy your holidays,builders,of anything!
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Longtime friend and climbing partner Blair Haffly met up with me up at the Redding, CA race last weekend to watch our event and see some fast RC racing and flying. It was great to see Blair after all these years. The last season I climbed, one of my trips was with him in the valley back in 1996 where we did a few pitches of the Nabisco, all of New Dimensions, and the Lost Arrow Direct with the tyrolean exit. Blair has held up well and is still in shape, still climbing some also, not like myself of course. Sadly I've let myself go being busted up and overweight, but still working a full schedule and sometimes up in the trees for a bit of extreme muscle fatigue therapy.
Blair is a quiet unassuming spirit and I hope he doesn't mind me posting the selfie I took of us here. It's so good to see old friends.
But alas, last weekend my sweet and swift primary Red Baron R/C Warbird racer won a few heats, but in the end the event was not my friend. Some fool of any erratic pilot turned too soon and smacked down hard on my baby dissecting her violently her in the middle of the final heat of the day. That was all she wrote, only a few pieces remaining. Dealing with my sick dog and missing cat all week so I haven't even looked at the parts and pieces sitting on the bench since I got home, but today I thought to commemorate her short, but brilliant career.
'Warbird Down'
She sits alone in forlorn heap,
Wrecked in boneyard remnant she,
Of days gone by her victory,
She won with glory and such pride,
Valiant the steed I once did ride,
To victory and to glory once with,
Falstaff standing at her side.
Mourn not her fall and swift demise,
She gave up all to realize,
That winners hear the sounding call,
Of pitch too high and ears too small,
And frequency a wave so fierce,
The tempest pales compared to it,
The thunder of the Warbird's squall.
-bushman
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Jul 16, 2015 - 04:05pm PT
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Making a 16" drum on commission for a friend. This is the first drum I have made with moose rawhide, and it has an amazing voice!
Now that it has dried, I just have to add the fur lined hand strap and make a beater to compliment this particular drum.
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Jul 16, 2015 - 05:59pm PT
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I think you have a strong business plan there Edge.
Nice.
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climbingcoastie
Ice climber
Sacramento, CA
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Jul 16, 2015 - 11:15pm PT
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Just finished the bed platform in my van.
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Jul 25, 2015 - 04:34pm PT
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Both had minor repairs this morning.
Old model Warbird's, not for racing lately, they need to get back out there and fly tomorrow.
Both do around 120 mph. Hopefully wheels up and good flights in the AM.
I don't like swastikas, none on the tail of this ME109.
The Corsair has electric retractable landing gear, the ME109 has mechanical gear linked to a single retract servo. There are no flaps (although with flaps they would be more scale), but both planes have flaperon mixing programmed in the transmitter, so with a flip of a switch the ailerons kick down some and double as flaps to give more lift and help to fly slower on the landings.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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fishished 1200 square feet of second story.
4 dormers, some structural logs,
deep tub, juliet balcony that peeks
down into her mystery's cleavage
and up god's skirt
we're selling the place, i'm taking my cut
and paying off the strawberry cabin
and then i'll rent in pollock pines until my daughters are
out and then i'll ride the atlas
with a place to crash near lovers leap.
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Fior
Mountain climber
San Francisco, California
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Norskveegan...That's some handy work there....
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Fior good work!
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philo
climber
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This is some really beautiful work being presented. I appreciate folks posted up their amazing skill sets.
Me, I'm just building a transporter. Beam me up Scotty.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Philo...You get a permit for the transporter...?
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philo
climber
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Permit? We don't need no stinkin permit just dilithium crystals.
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SGropp
Mountain climber
Eastsound, Wa
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F
climber
away from the ground
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