bought a house from 1910

[arse_sidewards]

Genius
saves me a trip to the store, too

ETA: might not be as strong without the positive clamping force of the bolts though

As someone who's used shit tires for marine applications I can say with certainty that it will be weaker if you're not clamping it. It's a bigger deal when fastening to the sidewall than the tread. With constant motion (i.e. waves) the holes egg out. You might be ok in a geotexttile application since there shouldn't be movement.

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

As someone who's used shit tires for marine applications I can say with certainty that it will be weaker if you're not clamping it. It's a bigger deal when fastening to the sidewall than the tread. With constant motion (i.e. waves) the holes egg out. You might be ok in a geotexttile application since there shouldn't be movement.

Should be pretty straightforward to use a couple bessey clamps to apply squeeze then weld.

 

[[486]]

I took the skidsteer today and I made flat.
actual flat, not even foot deep tire ruts through it

amazing
I ran the rattleplate over it, threw a level on it and it looks like it should even drain.
I'm so proud of myself

 

[Thatg9659]

I took the skidsteer today and I made flat.
actual flat, not even foot deep tire ruts through it

amazing
I ran the rattleplate over it, threw a level on it and it looks like it should even drain.
I'm so proud of myself

Olain dirt or the linked tire thing?

 

[[486]]

Olain dirt or the linked tire thing?

just clay for now, undecided on if this particular region is getting backfilled or a slab
if backfilled I'd toss tires in there, but if I decide on a carport off the front of the house here I'll have to dig them back out in order to toss down concrete.

Only downer of a carport out front is that it faces the street with a straight shot down the driveway so passers by can see if I'm there or not.
Not that it actually matters at all, but...
I'm really leaning toward it, as more covered parking is always useful, and if I throw down concrete there it'll make progress digging under the house much quicker, not having to deal with mud.
Just realized it'd move the frost line down another 7 feet, so backfill it will get.

 

[[486]]

I'll make sure and take pictures of the tire thing when I do it

 

[ConwayMuddy]

Nobody cares, did you road home your new old truck yet?

 

[[486]]

Nobody cares, did you road home your new old truck yet?

Nah, got my used brake calipers found, couldn't find the brake hoses I thought I had so bought 30 bucks worth of those, ouch, and found the starter I had laying around
supposed to rain up there today, so I'll head up there tomorrow and get it all combobulated together

 

[aczlan]

For your tach, get an optical one, I have one that looks like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004Q8L894/
It comes with some little strips of reflective tape, put one on the crank pulley and point the tach at it.

Aaron Z

 

[bdkw1]

For your tach, get an optical one, I have one that looks like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004Q8L894/
It comes with some little strips of reflective tape, put one on the crank pulley and point the tach at it.

Aaron Z

I love the marketing pictures. Must be some fancy new rotating head plasma cutter LOL.

 

[[486]]

 

[[486]]

ugh uploading pics is so clunky I hate this fucking post editor
anyways
made some progress in the house deal
gotta support the house before I go digging a fuckload of dirt out from under it, so how do I support it but dig a trench right next to it?
first picture was a day's progress
second pic is the second
third and fourth are the third. I did some shoring with garbage that was destined for the burn pile. Rocky clay doesn't dig good. Shovel hits rocks then stops.
there's a 6' 6x8 in the bottom there that I'll set a 6x6 atop that'll support the 5" c-channel I'm going to use to hold the roof up. Fun fact, I've got an 8' 6x6, a 14' and a 16'
I need a 10'
oh well I'll just extend the 8' one with some channel steel up to the beam

once I got the roof supported then I can dig out enough to put doors on the shed to limit access to the inside of the house once I really start digging.

 

[[486]]

well panzer updated his thread, I should update mine

okie dokie, got the first beam in there and all, gonna put a post under the double 2x10 in the middle before I knock the wall out
oh and dig down enough to add some doors onto the shit shed so the animals can stay the hell out

 

[[486]]

found some really strange tree roots, one of them is really angry but the other two are not nearly so angry

kinda funny they were putting in fiber at the street and they told me I had two phone lines. Today I got to thinking about it and one of them probably got cut when trenching in the power. Tugged on the two phone lines I'd luckily exposed without damage, sure enough one came loose from the ground, laid it out in the direction it shoulda been going and figured out about where the power line was. Gently dug down and sure enough there it was.
Then I back dragged the bucket over the still attached phone line lol
not using it but I'll reattach it when I'm done with the shit
digging by hand with the shovel to follow the power line to the full width of the trench and I get to thinking about other things and give the shovel a good stomp, with it across the direction the line's running... Got through the insulation and into the aluminum on one of the hot lines, couldn't even feel it really. I've got it taped up for now, gonna heatshrink it later on. Finally decided that I'm going to disconnect the triplex from the house end and pull it back through the ground, then poke it into the house around front rather than have it circle around back like it is. Make digging a lot easier without it in the ground

 

[[486]]

got a way rad truck for $150 and a way rad trailer for $1k
turns out it does indeed have springs and travel, the axle's a drop axle which is pretty sweet
I was told it's a 10k axle, but the oil bath hub caps are the size of dexter's 7-8k (and their 9k older than 89 which it certainly is)
got way bigger brakes than the 7ks I've worked on, so I'm calling it a 9k axle with way rotted 3500lb tires
truck's a 351/2wd/e4od, it needed front brakes/hoses and a starter in order to get home
oh, it's got a real nice "frame inspection port" in the floor, and the seatbelt is attached nicely
just a peek of rust for you southerner fucks
I should take a picture of the double frame under the cab some time. The doubler plates are fine but the frame itself is rusted nearly through and rustjacked all wavy

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

Got through the insulation and into the aluminum on one of the hot lines, couldn't even feel it really. I've got it taped up for now, gonna heatshrink it later on.

Curious how you`re going to apply heatshrink in the middle of a wire without cutting it. I know there`s zipper heat shrink, but I`ve only seen it in larger sizes (only shrinks down to beer can diameter).

You could use brush on electrical tape. Just give it a bunch of coats letting it dry inbetween then wrap with regular electrical tape or even rubber tape.

 

[Here4memes]

Run while you can!!!

My 1920 came with the 1400 sf shop and land. An original green turd on rocks. I lifted it off the rock piles adding another 6"-8", leveled it out the best I could and totally updated it from ground up. I could never sell to recoup even half of my investment. Built like a barn. But I can drive a nail in the walls almost anywhere.

Every room besides the main living room was once an added on porch.

Plumbing came into fashion for the middle / lower class in the 1950's. All the vent pipes were cast iron and plumbed out the exterior walls and up to the roof since it was added later. All got replaced with PVC. I left them vented out the walls for conversation. I was lucky my waterlines were copper. They were wrapped in the darkest times of 1950's newspapers for insulation. Only thing good to read from back then was the classifieds.

Electrical I was lucky again for the people worked at the local power company so I got copper. Aluminum was the most popular. Of course a 200 amp breaker panel replaced the 100 amp fuse box.

Wall insulation wasn't heard of until about the 1970's. Ripped the asbestos shingles and dutch-lap siding off to wire more receptacles and insulate. Went with T-1 with intentions to cover in vinyl soon. Only thing I haven't done yet. My body needed a much needed break.

Crawlspaces. The biggest joke. My best guess they laughed at the idea of anything useful down there in the future before plumbing and electrical. I'd say I chiseled 5 dump truck loads out by hand with concrete buckets with rope and a chisel hammer drill and a shovel head cut off about half way down the metal sleeve so it would fit vertically under the joists. Hammer drill was my best purchase for the entire restoration period!

Metal roof was original. Was more like a 5M, not 5V. Couldn't match it if I tried. No need for a light in the attic for all the nails popping up, just had to watch for snake skins. No sub-roof. I went with 1x's, felt paper and standard 3' metal. Had to put a light up there after all that.

Floors. I was able to salvage about 1/4 of the floors. Rest got covered with more T&G.

Windows all got smashed out and replaced with new sliders.

Framing, nothing on center. Anywhere from 16" to 30" and not even parallel. And banana boards were not wasted back then either.

950 sf. 2 bedroom / 1 bath on 2.5 acres. My appraisal is around 140k. I'm betting my receipts are at least twice that+. It's a love / hate but I'm more less stuck with it.

 

[[486]]

Framing, nothing on center. Anywhere from 16" to 30" and not even parallel. And banana boards were not wasted back then either.

heh mine's more or less 24 on center, but stuff like the roof rafters they didn't really care where they were falling in the middle
slapping 1x boards on one at a time you don't really need straight lines to get the nails in the right spot.

Curious how you`re going to apply heatshrink in the middle of a wire without cutting it. I know there`s zipper heat shrink, but I`ve only seen it in larger sizes (only shrinks down to beer can diameter).

You could use brush on electrical tape. Just give it a bunch of coats letting it dry inbetween then wrap with regular electrical tape or even rubber tape.

I'm going to drag it back out of the ground and use some 3/4" double wall
it kinda enters the house in a stupid location anyways, with the panel on the opposite corner of the house from the pole, so it goes hell and gone around the place the long way around even, right next to all the septic plumbing and shit.

 

[[486]]

spent the day stripping rocky 50-60yr old manure off of wet clay
pretty sure the rocks were in the clay before a bunch of frost cycles
it still smells like shit even after that long
gonna see about getting tires tomorrow, got bolts to bolt them together with
they'll stabilize the earth I guess like a mat or something

got the electric unhooked from the house and pulled back, dug it up to the first bend and then tried pulling on it from the other end
turns out triplex will not pull through 20' of dirt, even when it's wet and slick. Just pulls the aluminum apart.
Guess I'll be using a crimp connector to fix the damaged insulation after all lol
broke the two hots, just decided to cut the neutral to avoid work hardening it too pulling on it

 

[aczlan]

Run it in PVC conduit when you put it back down, harder to damage it again that way.



Aaron Z

 

[[486]]

meh, it's fine so long as retards don't go after it with a chain and try and pull it out of the ground
fuck pulling that stiff shit through 30 feet of conduit

 

[Thatg9659]

meh, it's fine so long as retards don't go after it with a chain and try and pull it out of the ground
fuck pulling that stiff shit through 30 feet of conduit

I picture where you dug it up is near the house, yet you cant just run it from there into the house? just leave the extra 20 ft in the ground.

 

[[486]]

in the picture showing the cable it runs from the left out to the pole and to the right into the side yard (directly under the shed I just built's legs) back about 30 ft then up the house wall and into the back wall of the house
I broke it off on the right side of the trench
I'm just gonna punch it through the front of the house instead with some other wire I've got and some burndy's until I'm backfilling the foundation. Then I'll probably put it through the corner of the house closest to the pole (just off screen to the right of that picture)

funny how the non-issue gets all the attention when the issue I'm really having trouble with (making wet clay flat) is simply answered by "just do better" so gains no response

 

[Provience]

funny how the non-issue gets all the attention when the issue I'm really having trouble with (making wet clay flat) is simply answered by "just do better" so gains no response

because fuck the clay, tear it all out and sell it as bricks or pipes and put real dirt there instead

 

[arse_sidewards]

funny how the non-issue gets all the attention when the issue I'm really having trouble with (making wet clay flat) is simply answered by "just do better" so gains no response

Bikeshedding.

 

[[486]]

because fuck the clay, tear it all out and sell it as bricks or pipes and put real dirt there instead

You mean like dirt, from the toilet?
But it doesn't got what tires crave.

Clay and rocks mixed with $100/load "fill sand" got what tires crave.

 

[Provience]

You mean like dirt, from the toilet?
But it doesn't got what tires crave.

Clay and rocks mixed with $100/load "fill sand" got what tires crave.

clay is worth money. it's abusive how expensive clay products are. it's also a bitch to fuck with

 

[[486]]

I dunno man, I dig any deeper and I'll need an excavator and like... drainage pumps

I'll just settle with covering over it with a barrier that will make the next guy to dig here absolutely furious with me

 

[[486]]

okie dokie
got a ton bundle of #4 bar, $850 or so, so not up a crazy amount but still up a ways
also got a ton bundle of guardrail cable for $350, it's about 9/16" or so? lays out pretty flat, might do the post tension thing, probably just use it as normal rebar
also fixed the electrical
Remembered there was a run of 10/3 UF across the house from the old fuse box to the new breaker box, so pulled that out and tied it in with a 30A breaker for now.
Neutral got a burndy, one hot got a big wire nut, the other hot got a dryer plug lol

ETA: oh and a pic of the frame on the truck I just bought. The good steel is a doubler plate, traps moisture against the frame (they were originally both the same thickness)

 

[[486]]

tires laid out and mostly bolted together (ran out of bolts, bought mostly 1" and a few 1.25" bolts figuring they'd be plenty, turns out the 1.25 are barely enough on bald tires)

tires filled with rocky dirty clay fill (the layer directly under the topsoil), rattleplate doesn't have the stones to compact a full width tire lift, so I beat on it with a post maul for a while, then rattleplated it after that
mixing up clay and sand, one bucket of sand to two of clay
spread on top
rattleplate compactored down