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Re: A busy day 

By: micro in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (1)
Thu, 17 Sep 20 12:41 AM | 26 view(s)
Boardmark this board | 6th Edition Pope Board 		Msg. 06063 of 60008
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Great job there De!
That's the kind of stuff I loved doing when I was in my fifties and forties. When I built he factory, I spent all summer there doing all the carpentry work for the material handling tables and work carts for moving things around.

Built work tables all around the beds of every OBI Press and all the welding equipment as well.

There is a sense of satisfaction in doing those things.

I built a large part of this house we are in. Rough carpentry. Framing mnostly. Why pay someone to do something you can do yourself?

Anyway, CONGRATS to YOU for this acheivement and milestone in your ongoing recovery from that SPLIT you acquired in yer chest and the repair of the heart you had done.
This is good stuff! Nemo used to do this stuff for a living! Looks like you had a good time helping with yer own house as well! WAY TO GO Big Guy!! Thumbs Up Propeller




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A busy day
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Thu, 17 Sep 20 12:10 AM 		Msg. 06062 of 60008

I had a great day. It was easily the most work I've done in 11 months… since I had that little medical melodrama.

My builder started framing the house at property #2 yesterday, and today I went up to help. I wound up staying for seven hours. I may have even done something useful - because I was given a specific job by the builder while he worked on other things.

My assignment was to set pressure-treated boards on the concrete perimeter walls, drilling holes through them so that they would fit bolts already fitted vertically into those walls. The boards were 2 x 12s, mostly 14 feet long (so they were heavy for an old, out-of-shape guy like me). They didn't all meet at 90 or 180 degree angles. Calculating where to drill the holes so they'd fit around the bolts and not screw the boards up was harder than you might think. At one point, I was standing on a 15" wall fourteen feet high (on both sides) drilling a guide hole into wood and concrete, swapping the bit so it could hold a 3" masonry screw, then fastening the wood down with the screw.

And it was extremely blustery weather - a little scary at times but I had a blast! Wow. I'm sore. I may regret this but I agreed to help again tomorrow. I'll finish what I started, though, and maybe come home after that if I'm tired.

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