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What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

Discussion in 'Everything Else (off topic)' started by Gasifier, Oct 6, 2013.

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  1. Gasifier

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    Letting you know then. It started. It's just in its very early stages. LOFL
     
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    My IS heats my home

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    I was thinking more of a stampede of snowmobiles going south :)

    Your in the front looking like Mel Gibson!
     
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    Have a few Harbor Freight crescent wrenches floating around at work. I've explained that they can be used on both metric and SAE sized hardware so long as you use the correct side of the wrench. One side says "Pittsburgh" for SAE stuff and the other says "China" and should be used for the metric sizes. :picard: :whistle:
     
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    I figured out why the dining roof leak started up again (it has stopped again). In addition to the ice at the edge of the roof there was another dam a good 10 feet up in the valley under the snow pack.

    I acquired a new longer 21ft rake so that I dont need to keep borrowing my neighbors, and using this got the snow removed all the way up to the peak. I also used the hatchet an broke up the ice down to the shingles in a couple 2 foot wide sections so it could drain (chopping down till there is a couple inches then use the back of the blade to fracture whats left like a hammer so as not to damage shingles).

    Hopefully just some patching and a paint job will fix the ceiling. I'm going to be doing a lot of work up in the attic on the venting and air sealing next summer. there is 6 inches of cellulose on top of fiberglass batts up there so its not lack of insulation.......

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    Wanted to go cut wood today but momma nature wasn't cooperating. Snow, rain, ice. So here's my morning project. 20150301_131328.jpg
     
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    Kind of like Tinkertoy. Anyone remember those?
     
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    Oh yeah.................Lincoln Logs too.
     
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    I "liked" not for the bad luck your having with ice this year, it was more for your sharing your experience with us and that we all think it sucks that it happend to you. Sry Bro
     
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    Got a ton of Lincoln logs around this place.
     
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    And BTW, if you want to move a bit of that ice off the edge, I have found that using a 4 pd sledge (a blunt heavier hammer) striking inbetween the rafters at the eaves creates enough vibration to take some serious chunks off without harming the shingles. Good luck
     
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    Wow... I want one... :banana:...
     
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    Thanks guys... Its been a rough month but we just do what we gotta do. On the flip side we have been having great fun with the kids sledding and building snow forts.

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    And, after all the shoveling you've done this winter, you shovel some more "fun" with the kids. Cool... :yes:
     
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    Just got the generator to exercise it a bit while I'm splitting wood for a bit. To nice outside not to be out in the snowy slush.
     
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    Took the badger dog to the dog park. He had a great time. Now I need to unload the trailer and stack the wood.
     
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    A weekends work is never done. :)
     
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    Speaking of which, I need to get off my butt and DO EEEET!
     
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    Na. I'm more original than that and better looking than Gibson. I threw this together the other day when I was over in Russia and wanted to get home in a different fashion. It took me a little longer, but I made it.

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    You never know what you are gonna come out of that shop with when you get an inspiration.............
     
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