Sounds like some sort of a weird pick-up line.
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I hadn't responded to that post because.. well, I just wasn't quite sure how.
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Ha Ha Ha
I hadn't responded to that post because.. well, I just wasn't quite sure how.
Too bad you had a mess to clean up, but running saws and shooting in the same day? I’m in! It’s ok to flip your bar with each sharpen, as it helps the rail wear evenly. I’ve done it for years. Prevents the crescent moon cuts over time.
Couple shots on the way home from taking a couple shots.
Cooled down real nice this evening. Been brutal for a few days in the high 80's. We die in that crap. Chap's our webbed feet.
Cooled down real nice this evening. Been brutal for a few days in the high 80's. We die in that crap. Chap's our webbed feet.
Just tell him where to meet and bring a couple of bottle of Ripple.
Good to know, thanks. The dealer told me a 24-25" bar would work on the 391, but after this last weekend, I'm thinking that 20" is all I want.
20” is a bad little mofo. Burnt up my Husky making a 4x4 post look like rough sawn lumber but that was a bad mofo as well. Neighbor calls me over and says “you need to cut down that ficus next to the fence as it is dropping leaves in my yard”. It was a 30’ ficus so I wasn’t real keen on cutting down a huge shade tree so I says to him “well you need to buy me a new Stihl chain saw, clean up the mess as I go and put it in the back of my truck”. So he bought me the new saw, I put a commercial chain on it and the rest is history?
I've got a 440 Magnum, and went from a Rollomatic 25" to a 20". I've found that even dropping 5" makes huge difference in fatigue.
Of course, I'm not a professional. The first hour I usually muscle the hell out of the saw and only start leting the saw do the work when I start to get tired.
Of course, I'm not a professional. The first hour I usually muscle the hell out of the saw and only start leting the saw do the work when I start to get tired.
I'm in a similar camp.
Homeowner that could probably get by with a bow saw but went 440.
Thing rips.
At the end of the day though I know I did some work.
I'm also just "homeowner", but I bought mine and use it more as toll for deer hunting land than anything else. It has come in handy during bad storms or ice storms but that's not why I bought such a big saw. Every summer I will go with 5-10 guys and cut/split enough firewood to last the farm I hunt on all year. We usually do about five chords and bust it out in a weekend. We cut and transport the logs the first day, and then split it all the next. There are about 500 acres, and about half is wooded, so there are always big down trees to cut up. They have a bunch of horses, and sometimes they'll kill a big tree by gnawing the bark, so I've dropped some big ones, and they have a really nice splitter that's fast. It is two solid says of work, but I look forward to it every year.
San Juans on Saturday. Retired station along the Rio Grande RR on the Rio Grande River.
Don't get too jealous.
Make sure to click on HD and it gets real good at just before 1 minute.
Make sure to click on HD and it gets real good at just before 1 minute.
Don't get too jealous.
Make sure to click on HD and it gets real good at just before 1 minute.
Nice !!! Love the hell outta that Bachelor Group. Something like 10 or 11 of them. Before it grew up, we use to go a few times a year and scout the Margaret Unit up Mt St. Helens. They had Bachelor Groups up there I've never seen the sizes of in my life. Literally 20-30 "LEGAL" Bulls in a bunch. We'd see a metric shit ton of groups in the 10-20 head and many in the 20-30 range. Use to put in for a couple special draws up there every year. It's why a buddy and I ended up taking our Master Hunter Courses and got certified in the State. More preference points and more AHE only hunts. They have got some Roosevelt's up there that will make your jaw drop.
Ok, it’s official? We need a love hate button? Love the beauty in the pic’s but hate the fact that we weren’t there to enjoy it???? Damn that’s some beautiful country amigo. Talk about hit the reset switch?
funny you should say that...
The pergola is coming along too. Been working on it an hour or two after work. It should be done tomorrow.
The pergola is coming along too. Been working on it an hour or two after work. It should be done tomorrow.
Lookin sweet already and nice job dude!? That should buy you atleast 30 minutes of no stink eye from the misses?. You throwing one end up and walk the other up the ladder to set’m?
Exactly. I’m dadoing the stringers and joists 2” so they lock into place. Once they’re all in I’ll get the framing nailer and toe them all in from the top, but they honestly don’t need it. Most of them I’m cutting just right so I have to bang them in with a mallet.
Gettin' old and losing your hearing and eyesight does have a few upsides....dont'cha know ? (I haven't seen stinkeye in, hell, I dunno, 5, maybe 10 years).
Still enjoy the color of the sky at altitude. Had to level at 340 to let Air Canada go by. We spend all our time at FL400 or 410 these days.
If anybody asks about the nailer tell’m it’s a Hitachi? Still have all my framing tools and that is one bad ass nail gun. Were you able to get all that in a package or jig up and cut it all yourself? Posted a wood floor a bit back and there is actually two of them that used to be carpet. Wife says she doesn’t want to replace it with carpet and says
you should install wood flooring. Construction on your free time when you do it for a living is the last thing you want to do so I flippantly said we’ll you should go buy me a chop saw and a table saw? Shouldn’t have said that as the wife shows up back at the house with wood flooring, a chop saw and a table saw......DeWalt no less? I don’t say shit like that to my wife anymore???
Gettin' old and losing your hearing and eyesight does have a few upsides....dont'cha know ? (I haven't seen stinkeye in, hell, I dunno, 5, maybe 10 years).
LMFAO! One of the only advantages of playing guitars and shooting guns? Wife and I lost our communication relay when the youngest move out. What did she say kid????
Strong argument for not sweating the little shit?
No. I drew it out and then ordered all the right size lumber so I could avoid a few cuts, but it’s a very simple design. I looked at some kits, but they were a lot more expensive, and none of them were long and narrow like I needed for the space. I poured the footers and put the pavers down in the spring. It was about $2.5k for all the lumber (treated and pre-stained). I shudder to think what it would cost me to have a real carpenter do it.
All my phenumatic nailers are Bostitich. I do have a Dewalt compressor.
Pays to know the business end of a tool? Nice to step back and see something you did yourself at the end of the day. I actually kind of miss that about framing as retarded as that may sound. Now it’s a cell phone that I wish I could throw and herding cats?
Had to take a day between jobs to work up a couple of State sponsored remodel bids. I've been hunched over the laptop most of the day, and with the Child Bride out of town for a funeral, the house was getting pretty stale. About 8 pm I said "screw it", grabbed my fishing gear and cooler and went to drown some worms.
I am a lazy, casual fisherman at best. Tied on a #6 hook, bobber and nightcrawler, threw it out and sat in a lawn chair. It's kind of like a good fire, the cobwebs in the brain sorta just wash away. The little lake behind our house has no natural flow so the blue/green algae was in full bloom, expectations were low, as were the results. Cold Buds, dock to myself, who cares, catching a fish is just frosting on the cake.
Bug proofing a Bud:
Skitters finally sent me home. A quiet ending to a otherwise boring day.
I am a lazy, casual fisherman at best. Tied on a #6 hook, bobber and nightcrawler, threw it out and sat in a lawn chair. It's kind of like a good fire, the cobwebs in the brain sorta just wash away. The little lake behind our house has no natural flow so the blue/green algae was in full bloom, expectations were low, as were the results. Cold Buds, dock to myself, who cares, catching a fish is just frosting on the cake.
Bug proofing a Bud:
Skitters finally sent me home. A quiet ending to a otherwise boring day.
I had never heard the term disadvantaged subcontractor till we bid some federal work here in town. Is your state stuff along the same line? Nothing better than lake side and a cold one to defrag the central computer?
The project I bid is run through USDA. Super low interest loans and grants to those who can't get normal credit but still need work done, mostly to remedy health risks. The problem is they cap the loans at $7,500 with the possibility of another $7,500 if they qualify. My bid took a full 2/3's of both grants. 15 grand doesn't go to far on some of the wrecks I've seen. As far as being disadvantaged, if I understand you correctly, USDA can hardly get anybody to bid these jobs. To small, to many hoops. This job is small and close, right up my alley. And I'm the only one dumb enough to consider it.
I wanted to suggest they start the remodel with 5 gallons of gas and a match, but held my tongue. Defrag the central computer, good one. Will be using that in the future.
Cranking on bid #3, no state or fed in this one. Big beautiful house remodel, bidding on the taping, texture, finish and trim out. Hope to get it, should be fun.
As a GC doing federal work, the lions share of the subs that I use have to be either certified minority or disadvantaged owned subs as well as suppliers along the same line. It’s as bad as it sounds? The best contractor for the job with the best value has little to do with it in my opinion. Won’t do Fed work anymore now that I know how the game is played. That includes military bases FYI.
If those USDA jobs are quick in/out, don’t have a 90day wait for a check that clears the bank who cares?
One must exorcise extreme caution while in the wild lest you wind up with a new trailer and one of these. There isn’t a good eneough excuse to give the wife when you get home and they don’t come with a lawyer.....I checked?
120,000sqft of sales and service for stuff that will get you divorced??
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Done
It will be a while before I’m done being sick of carpentry.
It will be a while before I’m done being sick of carpentry.
Can we all come over for the inagural party ? we'll bring plenty of booze and we'll all behave ourselves, I promise.......
BTW......beautiful work......
Welcome to the rain forest. Not that I knew that there was one in SEPA, but here we are.
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