89wrangler
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Footers all dug and concrete poured. Now I need some poles.
42 80lb bags of concrete
The rest
42 80lb bags of concrete
The rest
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89wrangler
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- Oct 22, 2005
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- Bostic,NC
Friday poured concrete footers.
Saturday cut up a couple of trees neighbor had down in his front yard and hauled to the house.
And Sunday turned that into this this
Best wood stacker ever! My youngest daughter stacked all of it!
Needless to say, I am one sore sum bitch today. old age really sucks!
Saturday cut up a couple of trees neighbor had down in his front yard and hauled to the house.
And Sunday turned that into this this
Best wood stacker ever! My youngest daughter stacked all of it!
Needless to say, I am one sore sum bitch today. old age really sucks!
89wrangler
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- Oct 22, 2005
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- Bostic,NC
Pick building kit up on Friday. Worked on it Saturday and 1/2 day on Sunday.
89wrangler
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- Oct 22, 2005
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- Bostic,NC
Few more updates. Got all the purlins, eave trim on and and almost all of roofing. Got two 24” panels left, ridge cap and rake trim. I can see the finish line! This is certainly hard on an old body! Thank goodness for my son in law as well as my youngest daughters boyfriend. Been a lot of help!
89wrangler
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- Oct 22, 2005
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More progress. Had a couple use them or lose them vacation days left and with rain moving in tomorrow and Friday, decided to make the final push.
Finished up the roof panels and trim
added boards around the bottom to keep rock in place
Laid some fabric down to keep weeds out.
7 tons of gravel hauled and spread
she fits!
Finished up the roof panels and trim
added boards around the bottom to keep rock in place
Laid some fabric down to keep weeds out.
7 tons of gravel hauled and spread
she fits!
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- Mar 13, 2005
- Location
- Raleigh, NC
Built a couple of digital picture frames for the grandparents. They run on raspberry pis and update automatically from a google photos album that Cyd and I share. I owe a huge debt to this guy for the how-to articles, especially the one that showed how to have the pi start its own hot spot if it couldn't find a wifi network that it knew.
DSM Turbos
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- Feb 25, 2006
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- Raleigh, NC
go ahead and make another one for me also! How much overall it did it cost? That’s pretty awesome
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- Mar 13, 2005
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- Raleigh, NC
I'd guess they were about $200/ea. I've been buying 23" Dell open box monitors for $90. The pi (3b+) is $65 once case/card/xfrmr are accounted for. Then it's a lot of nickel & dime stuff - cords, screws, sandpaper, new saw blades, tung oil, making a miter jig, etc. Wood was probably $40 for both frames, not counting the maple.
DSM Turbos
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- Feb 25, 2006
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- Raleigh, NC
I got a few old spare monitors. I’ll drop them by soon for you to make me one haha
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- Stanley, NC
That is friggin awesome. Can you buy something like that on Amazon from China for like $100? If not, ill give you $50 to build me one.
RatLabGuy
You look like a monkey and smell like one too
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I bought Mom something exactly like this, but probably only 11", maybe.... 5 years ago? There are tons of them.That is friggin awesome. Can you buy something like that on Amazon from China for like $100? If not, ill give you $50 to build me one.
But nowadays to be able to push new pics you have to have a subscription or something through the company
RatLabGuy
You look like a monkey and smell like one too
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- Churchville, MD
Those trusses are beefy.
What's the spacing between them?
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- Mar 13, 2005
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- Raleigh, NC
That's exactly how this project started. "I have old monitors and raspberry pis - I can make a picture frame for free dollars!"
Once I built a proof of concept, we realized that they would make great Christmas presents for our parents... And if I gave them as gifts, they needed to be a little nicer.
DSM Turbos
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- Raleigh, NC
Story of like half my projects. Snowballing out of controlThat's exactly how this project started. "I have old monitors and raspberry pis - I can make a picture frame for free dollars!"
Once I built a proof of concept, we realized that they would make great Christmas presents for our parents... And if I gave them as gifts, they needed to be a little nicer.
89wrangler
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- Bostic,NC
10’ between trusses.
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- Mar 24, 2005
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- Stanley, NC
Yeah, but I want a big one, and I want it to look nice and handmade. That's why I need to sub it to Shawn for tree fiddy.
89wrangler
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It is official now
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- Mar 13, 2005
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- Raleigh, NC
Fuck you, stump
awheelterd
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- Kenly, NC
Those must be @Jody Treadway 's kids.....
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- Mar 24, 2005
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- Stanley, NC
Dang man. That's definitely NOT the easy way
What kind of wood is it? Almost looks like walnut.
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- Raleigh, NC
Dang man. That's definitely NOT the easy way
What kind of wood is it? Almost looks like walnut.
Gum.
It was one of those things that snowballed. Knowing what I know now, I would have hunted down a 25-30hp stump grinder and knocked out out in a couple of hours.
paradisePWoffrd
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- Newton, NC
What happened to the backhoe? Not sure it would have helped with the size of that stump.
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- Mar 24, 2005
- Location
- Stanley, NC
It would help get the dirt out from around it.
Had to do the corona quarentino last week because I was working in a house that the whole family came down with it. Wife took the kids and went to her parents until my test came back. I had painted some corner armor a couple months ago so I decided to just paint everything else. Lucky we had 2 decently warm days....Tractor Supply International White,harbor freight compressor, kobalt hvlp gun, inadequate lighting and 1 non professional painter with no attention to detail. I need another exposure and some more warm weather and I think I can finish it.
